Sale 290P, Closing Date: Tuesday, 15th September 2020

SRA Postal Auction: Working Instructions

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Lot 55 BR(E) LT&S Line booklet "Hours of Opening of Signal Boxes between Fenchurch St and Shoeburyness and branches". 9pp dated September 1963. Slightly worn. - Sold for £55 to bidder number 493

Lot 56 BR(M) 15pp booklet "Local Instructions in Connection with Train and Traffic Control Stoke on Trent District". Dated August 1953. Covers marked. - Sold for £26 to bidder number 657

Lot 57 BR(M) Western Division booklet of London Suburban Area (excluding main line) Whitsuntide Holidays 1948 local passenger train arrangements. 32pp. - This item was not sold.

Lot 58 BR(M) Midland Line two part booklet "Classification and Marshalling of Freight Trains - Block Train Working to Coal Concentration Depots". 25pp dated October 1967. - Sold for £16 to bidder number 3732

Lot 59 BR(M) booklet "Arrivals and Departures of Passenger Trains at Nottingham". Blue covers, 19pp, dated September 1986. - This item was not sold.

Lot 60 BR(M) "Shunting Locomotive and Local Trip Notice Liverpool Divisional Manager's Area Wirral section". 3pp dated October 1972. - This item was not sold.

Lot 61 BR(M) "Trip Notice" Nottingham Divisional Manager's area Nottingham District. 8pp dated May 1980. - This item was not sold.

Lot 62 BR(S) London West District booklet "Hours of Opening of Signal Boxes between Waterloo and Portsmouth, Salisbury, Reading and branches". 16pp dated September 1952. - Sold for £10 to bidder number 925

Lot 63 BR(S) booklet "Hours of Opening of Signal Boxes in the South Eastern Division". 23pp dated June 1962. - This item was not sold.

Lot 64 BR(ScR) "Platform Arrangements for Trains Arriving and Departing from Edinburgh Princes Street". Foolscap sized, 8pp dated September 1952. - Sold for £45 to bidder number 4691

Lot 65 BR(W) London Division booklet "Working of Guards of Passenger Trains and Rail Motor Cars and Train Ticket Collectors". 39pp dated May 1948. - Sold for £55 to bidder number 1085

Lot 66 BR(W) booklet "Passenger Train Working Oxford Station". 34pp dated September 1948. - Sold for £12 to bidder number 1154

Lot 67 BR(W) booklet "Passenger Train Working Oxford Station". 44pp dated September 1962. - Sold for £12 to bidder number 2595

Lot 68 BR(W) notice No.K2/59 "Notice to Enginemen, Guards & others. Reduction of speed of trains and engineering and signal arrangements". 80pp dated March 12th 1949. - Sold for £45 to bidder number 486

Lot 69 BR(W) notice No.58 "Passenger Train Working Paddington Station, West London Carriage Sidings and Old Oak Common". 50pp dated September 1949. - Sold for £18 to bidder number 1154

Lot 70 BR(W) notice No.50 "Programme of Working of Women Travelling Porters also trains on which Male Travelling Porters are employed". 34pp dated September 1948. - Sold for £55 to bidder number 486

Lot 71 BR(W) typescript train notice No.26 re arrangements and engine workings for the funeral train of Sir Winston Churchill. 8 pages dated 27th January 1965. - Sold for £20 to bidder number 1172

Lot 72 Four BR(S) Southern District Somerset & Dorset Line "Temporary Speed Restrictions, Permanent Way Operations, etc" booklets. Each 12pp dated 2nd March, 20th July, 27th July, 19th October 1957. (4) - This item was not sold.

Lot 73 GWR & LMS JOINT booklet "Table of Arrival and Departure of Trains - Bristol Temple Meads Joint Station". 19pp dated September 1937. - Sold for £26 to bidder number 4283

Lot 74 GWR 24pp handbill type leaflet "Coronation - Alteration and Suspension of Passenger Trains in connection with the Coronation Celebrations, May 1937". Blue print. - Sold for £75 to bidder number 1223

Lot 75 GWR 36pp handbill type booklet "August Bank Holiday 1932 - Alteration and Suspension of Passenger Trains and additional train arrangements". Blue print. - Sold for £45 to bidder number 1223

Lot 76 GWR Northern Division "Notice of Extra Trains and other special arrangements". 8pp dated July 6th 1888. - Sold for £12 to bidder number 2004

Lot 77 GWR booklet "Marshalling Instructions for through and important local freight trains - section B, trains starting from Plymouth, Exeter, etc". 116pp dated October 1939. - Sold for £180 to bidder number 1258

Lot 78 GWR notice No.1 "Examination of Freight Trains". 22pp listing trains and where to be examined brought about by wartime alterations to the regulations. Dated February 1941. - Sold for £14 to bidder number 1154

Lot 79 GWR notice No.31 "Strawberry Traffic Swanwick District (SR) to LNER stations via Basingstoke and Banbury and GWR stations via Basingstoke and via Salisbury - season 1940". 10pp. - This item was not sold.

Lot 80 GWR notice No.88 "Ambulance Trains. Information for running of special ambulance trains over GW line including cross country routes". Green print, 14pp dated April 1915. - Sold for £120 to bidder number 7695

Lot 81 GWR "Programme of Working of Coaches in Through Trains also Formations of Through Parcels Trains and Working of Stores Vans". 58pp dated May 1941. - Sold for £65 to bidder number 486

Lot 82 GWR "Working Notice of Excursion Trains and other arrangements". 6pp, green coloured paper, dated February 14th 1888. Paper faded at edges. - Sold for £60 to bidder number 486

Lot 83 LMS Northern Division "Platform Arrangements for Trains Arriving and Departing from Glasgow Central Station". Foolscap sized, 23pp dated April 1947. Covers detached at rusty staples. - Sold for £22 to bidder number 4812

Lot 84 LMS Northern Division foolscap sized notice "Glasgow Central Station - repairs to Old Bridge over Clyde at Broomielaw". 8pp dated February 1928. - Sold for £14 to bidder number 4812

Lot 85 LMS Northern Division "Platform Arrangements and Altered Passenger Train Marshalling Arrangements for Trains Arriving and Departing from Glasgow St.Enoch Station during the period the fog service is in operation". Foolscap sized, 16pp dated June 1945. Disbound. - Sold for £10 to bidder number 2595

Lot 86 LMS Western Division booklet "Marshalling Circular". 82pp plus 25pp appendix. Dated September 1927. - Sold for £65 to bidder number 1250

Lot 87 LMS "Instructions as to the Sighting of Signals". Green cloth covers, 28pp dated April 1936. Vertical fold. - Sold for £35 to bidder number 1426

Lot 88 LNER GE Section notice "Renewal of Bridge at Stratford - altered working". 15pp dated May 1927. - Sold for £16 to bidder number 911

Lot 89 LNER Northern Division notice No.3 "Programme shewing alterations in the Electric Train Services on the Tynemouth Branches". 32pp dated Whit Monday 10th June 1935. Disbound. - Sold for £50 to bidder number 2244

Lot 90 MET & GWR 2pp handbill type public notice "Train Arrangements, Coronation Week". Dated June 1902. - This item was not sold.

Total number of Lots in Working Instructions: 36.

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