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SR bandwagon rolls on as GCRA spans two centuries

THE relentlessmarchof Southern Railway locomotive nameplates has become an auction tour de force that is showing no sign of abating. No fewer than 18 have featured in three recent sales in successive months – Great Central on September 3,Talisman Railwayana on October 15, and GW Railwayana on November 12 – and Great Central will make it four successive months in its quarterly auction on December 3, with a trio comprising West Country, Battle of Britain, and King Arthur plates.

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