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It’s seven up as GWR, SR and LMS in head-to -head

NAMEPLATES from seven locomotives built within eight years of each other will be at the core of GW Railwayana’s November 12 sale. They are from two King Arthurs and a pair of Schools from the Southern Railway, two GWR Hall class 4-6-0s, and an LMS Jubilee.

The oldest of the line-up are and from SR Nos. 30796 and 30797, built at Eastleigh in May and August 1926, while the railway’sand from Nos. 30902 and 30919, also Eastleigh products that entered traffic in April 1930 and June 1933.

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