WHERE to start with the line-up of 12 nameplates in GW Railwayana’s live online auction on July 15? Numerically seems a logical way forward, so it’s the GWR first, represented by Knight of the Bath from Star No. 4014, Oakley Hall from No. 5936 and Stanley Hall from No. 5938.
The Star is the only pre-Grouping locomotive in the auction’s nameplate selection, having been built at Swindon in March 1908 and withdrawn in June 1946. Its name derives from an elaborate medieval ceremony