Great Central Railwayana Limited
Sheffield Railwayana Postal Auction
   

Postal Auction Catalogue, Closing Date: Tuesday, 15th September 2020

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Lot 21 Books: BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY MANUAL, SHAREHOLDER'S GUIDE AND DIRECTORY dated 1914. Green coloured clothbound hardback covers with title in gold on front and spine, 670pp plus fold out maps. - Sold for £40 to bidder number 7699.

Lot 22 Books: SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS landscape format booklet "Illustrations of Locomotives and other Rolling Stock". Paperback, 28pp of illustrations. Dated 1929. - This item was not sold.

Lot 23 Books: SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS published book "History, Scope and Organisation". Hardback with coloured pictorial dust jacket, 124pp of information regarding the railway. Published 1947. - Sold for £30 to bidder number 2244.

Lot 24 Early Railway Guide Books: RAILWAY CHRONICLE "Travelling Charts" for the London - Brighton route. 12pp fold out style showing coloured views of features en route, folding into illustrated paperback covers. Circa 1850s. Faults to covers, contents OK. - Sold for £65 to bidder number 2799.

Lot 25 Early Railway Guide Books: BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 3: English and Scotch Lake Districts, Ayr (Land of Burns). Paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, circa 1867. Disbound, spine taped. - Sold for £28 to bidder number 7699.

Lot 26 Early Railway Guide Books: BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 2: North and South Wales, Ireland". Paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, circa 1867. Disbound, front section detached. - Sold for £28 to bidder number 7699.

Lot 27 Early Railway Guide Books: BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 4: Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire". Paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, circa 1867. Disbound, front cover detached. - Sold for £35 to bidder number 7699.

Lot 28 Early Railway Guide Books: BRADSHAW'S "Handbook For Tourists in Great Britain & Ireland" - section 4: Ireland and Scotland". Illustrated paperback covers, 200+pp plus adverts and fold out maps, dated 1878. Covers dusty. - Sold for £30 to bidder number 7699.

Lot 29 Early Railway Guide Books: BRADSHAW'S CONTINENTAL RAILWAY GUIDE part 2 (descriptive pages) dated "First Issue 1928". Paperback, 349pp plus map in envelope at back. Covers slightly faded, otherwise good condition. - Sold for £50 to bidder number 4743.

Lot 30 Early Railway Guide Books: BRADSHAW'S "Illustrated Hand Book to Spain and Portugal". Hardback with title in gold on front, 189pp plus adverts and fold out maps. Dated 1883. A few pencil annotations. - Sold for £55 to bidder number 4743.

Lot 31 Early Railway Guide Books: HARDBACK BOUND VOLUME of the "Sportsman's Tourist's and General Timetables and Guides to the Rivers, Lochs, Moors and Deer-Forests of Scotland" edited by J. Watson-Lyall and dated July 1873. 382pp in part leather bound covers. Some wear and part loss of one map. - Sold for £18 to bidder number 353.

Lot 32 Reports and Records: LNWR copy of a report by George Stephenson and letters by his son Robert Stephenson re the Liverpool and Manchester Railway produced for the company stand at the Franco - British Exhibition in London in 1908. 16pp, text in French and English. - Sold for £14 to bidder number 1426.

Lot 33 Reports and Records: RAILWAY EXECUTIVE Report of The Locomotive Testing Committee on The Locomotive Interchange Trials of 1948. Foolscap size, 131 typescript pages. Annotation to title page. - Sold for £50 to bidder number 3937.

Lot 34 Royal Train Notices: GER Royal Train timetable for a special train for the King and suite from Newmarket to St.Pancras and back on 1st May 1902. 1pp, lilac print with gold decorative border. Slight foxing. - Sold for £45 to bidder number 1409.

Lot 35 Royal Train Notices: LSWR & GWR JOINT Royal Train timetable for the King of Greece and suite from Portsmouth Dockyard to Windsor 13th November 1905. Blue and gold print with ornate border and royal coat of arms, 1pp, slight staining down r/h edge. - Sold for £45 to bidder number 2244.

Lot 36 Royal Train Notices: MIDLAND RAILWAY royal train notice of "Important Special Passenger Trains" from St.Pancras to Bolton Abbey, Leeds, Sheffield, Hathersage and back to St.Pancras on 26th - 29th September 1915. 11pp. - Sold for £18 to bidder number 353.

Lot 37 Royal Train Notices: GWR booklet produced for the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to Swindon April 28th 1924. Grey covers with coat of arms of the company and town. 16pp plus fold out plan of the works. Small marks on rear cover otherwise OK. - Sold for £26 to bidder number 2799.

Lot 38 Royal Train Notices: GWR thin card, 6" x 4" invitation card to admit one person to platform 9 Paddington station for the funeral train of King Edward VII on 20th May 1910. Purple coloured print and edging with royal coat of arms. Map of station on rear. - Sold for £45 to bidder number 4272.

Lot 39 Royal Train Notices: BR(W) Royal Train notice No.20 re trains to and from Kingham and Stratford on Avon on 19th & 20th April 1950. 18pp. - Sold for £28 to bidder number 914.

Lot 40 Royal Train Notices: BR(W) Royal Train notice No.60 re trains from Windsor & Eton to Coventry and Leamington Spa and return on 4th & 5th April 1951. 16pp. - Sold for £10 to bidder number 2004.

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