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Lot 21
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Brass Steam Locomotive Cabside Numberplate "426" as carried by a H.Riches designed ex Brecon & Merthyr Railway/GWR Class 02 0-6-2T built by Robert Stephenson Ltd, Darlington in March 1914. Allocated in its earlier days to only Newport Pill and Llantrisant it was withdrawn from the latter when it was sold to the Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Colliery Co., becoming No. 52 in 1947 when it was sold to the Philadelphia Colliery at Houghton-Le-Spring. It remained in service there until 1968 when purchased by the Midland & Great Northern Preservation Society and then subsequently sold to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, arriving in December 1970.
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