Live Auction For : SATURDAY 27th JUNE AT GARTELL LIGHT RAILWAY, COMMON LANE, YENSTON,
            TEMPLECOMBE, SOMERSET, BA8 0NB

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313 Southern Railway Signal Lamp Interior. Body is embossed “SR” and has brass “E” Eastleigh plate and makers plate. Steel plate to base “25 Exeter”. Complete with copper chimney, handle, burner and glasses. Restored. 325 Cast iron Locomotive Shedplate “5D” (Stoke on Trent). A LMS style code with an extra pair of holes drilled inside the usual pair. Label on rear states “Stoke D.M.U.” so perhaps transferred to one of these vehicles following steam loco use. Face restored only a while ago with sooty back.
314 Southern Railway enamel Station Target Sign “Hamworthy Junction”. A few small re-touched chips mostly to edge not affecting lettering. The main area in very good condition with good colour and shine. Mounted on a backing board. A former LSWR station between Poole and Wareham opened as Poole Junction in June 1847 and re-named as the target in Dec. 1872. 326 S&DJR fibre Single Line Tablet “Templecombe - Stalbridge 10”. Our hosts, the Gartell Light Railway run their trains over part of this section. Don’t miss taking a ride on one of their trains running especially for us today.
315 Box of Lamp Spares: Front lenses, coloured glasses, burners, vessels etc. Useful lot. 327 S&DJR small leather Single Line Tablet Pouch with integral steel hoop used in connection with the Whitaker Exchange Apparatus fitted to locomotives. These white pouches were used exclusively on the Somerset & Dorset Line.
316 LSWR Permanent Way Track Layers Hammer with long wooden shaft. The head clearly incised with the company initials. 328 Metropolitan Railway enamel Sign “Eastbound” with directional feathered arrow. Could be a timetable board header. Minor chips and light rusting only. 609x153mm. (24x6in).
317 GWR official Drawing titled “GWR Central Wales Division Standard Per. Way Hut”. Small colour washed drawing presented in a glazed frame pasted to the back of which is a GWR memo dated 1925 from Oswestry to Inspector Price attaching this drawing. 390x313mm. (15.3x12.3in). 329 Somerset & Dorset Joint Rly. large 22mm. brass Uniform Button with “SJC” script initials (Somerset Joint Committee) as issued to senior staff. A rare button, much scarcer than the nickel equivalent.
318 Cheshire Lines Committee long brass Look-Out Man’s Warning Horn with a turned bone mouthpiece. Clearly stamped “CLC”. 292mm. (11.5in) long. 330 “L&NWR Co. 20” cast iron Viaduct Numberplate. Unrestored.
319 A cast gunmetal Oil Lubrication Box from SR ‘West Country’ Class Pacific Loco No. 34027 “Taw Valley”. On a wooden mount. 331 Southern Railway enamel Station Target Sign “Sidmouth”. General edge wear only. The main area in lovely condition with fine colour and shine. An extremely rare target never offered for sale before so this is a unique opportunity. Ex-station paint to back radii. A former LSWR station opened in July 1874 terminus of the branch from Tipton St. Johns which was on the Sidmouth Junction - Exmouth Junction coastal loop line. Sidmouth closed in March 1967.
320 Pair of GWR post grouping brass collared Handlamps. Both 3 aspect, one is made by Polkey, the other by Hetherington. Complete with original vessels, burners, reflectors and all glasses. Restored. (2) 332 GWR official Jigsaw Puzzle “The Model Railway”. Complete and in v.g.c. with original very good green marbled box complete with Chad Valley packing slip and GWR folding system map in its original paper wallet.
321 BR(S) fully flanged enamel Station Sign “Way Out and Waiting Room”. Minor re-touched edge chips only. Very good colour and shine. 608x307mm. (24x12in). 333 LSWR 3 aspect Handlamp. The top stamped “SWR”. The body has a “L&SWR Co” brass plate and is stamped “L&SWR 3244” and “Portsmouth Arms”. Complete with “L&SWR” vessel, “BRS” burner, reflector and all glasses. Unrestored. A station on the Exeter - Barnstaple Line opened in Aug. 1854.
322 GWR cast iron Cabside Numberplate “5773” as carried by 0-6-0 Pannier Tank built at Swindon. A Swansea Victoria & Neath Loco in later life so either of the shedplates 87K or 87A in our sale today would match up. The loco was withdrawn in Sept. 1962 and cut up by Hayes of Bridgend in Dec. 1963. The cabside is in fine condition with class and boiler details stamped into the rim. Face restored only over old original paint a while ago. 334 LNER and LMS Joint quad royal pictorial Poster “Loch Lomond” by Mackintosh Patrick. An absolutely stunning image of the loch, wooded shoreline and distant hills which would grace anyone’s room. Minor losses to three of the fold intersections otherwise fine condition. Presented in a glazed frame but not stuck down. 1330x1065mm. (52.3x42in) overall.
323 GWR mahogany cased Signal Box Block Bell with small brass mushroom bell. Minor damage to top otherwise unrestored ex-box condition and a nice sounding instrument. 335 An unusual glazed wooden Sign “Beware of the engine and moving wagons”. Totally original condition. 428x332mm. (16.8x13in).
324 Southern Railway untitled cast iron Notice “Warning Stop Look & Listen before Crossing the Line”. Restored a while ago. 336 Box of Miscellaneous Hardwares. All small items so definitely worth a delve.