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    From post-Grouping to the BR era, nameplates prepare for head-to-head

    Feb 15, 2022 3 minutes
    BY GEOFF COURTNEY

    THREE main line locomotives built within a little over four years of each other either side of the Nationalisation of the railways in 1948 – Nos. 34038, 7916, and 70005 – will be among the star turns in GW Railwayana’s March 12 auction.

    Nameplates from each of this trio will be going under Simon Turner’s hammer, comprising Lynton with scroll from the SR West Country class Pacific, Mobberley Hall from the GWR 4-6-0, and John Milton from the ‘Brit.’

    The SR representative is the oldest of the pack, having been

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