Four locomotives and three eras, as GWRA gears up for ‘watershed’ sale
NAMEPLATES from four main line locomotives built at Crewe in three distinct eras will be sharing the spotlight with six others in GW Railwayana’s (GWRA) auction on November 14. They are LMS pair Princess Royal class Princess Arthur of Connaught and Jubilee Barham both from 1935, Standard Pacific Clan Macleod from 1952, and Western Prefect from a diesel-hydraulic that emerged to traffic in 1963.
The first is from No. 46207, which entered traffic in August 1935 and was withdrawn from London’s Willesden shed (1A) in November 1961. It was named after a granddaughter of Edward VII and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria who died in February 1959
