ONE of the lowest-numbered locomotive cabside plates ever offered at auction, which was bought from Collectors’Corner in Euston five decades ago for just £14, will be going under the hammer on March 11. It is No. 6, from a LBSCR A1‘Terrier’that operated for four different railway companies during its 73-year service life.
Built at the LBSCR’s Brightonthe 0-6-0T was rebuilt as an A1X in May 1912 and was inherited by the Southern Railway on the formation of the ‘Big Four’ in January 1923 and renumbered 653. In April 1937 it was sold by the SR to the Weston
