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Lot 185
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Brass CABSIDE NUMBERPLATE "7806". As carried by a GWR Manor 7800 Class 2-6-0T. Built Swindon March 1938 as a renewal of Mogul 4389. New to 84G Shrewsbury, then to 84C Banbury for through working to Swansea via Cheltenham. Later sheds were 83F St. Blazey, 83A Newton Abbot (for banking and pilot work), 89C Machynlleth, 84E Tyseley, 84F Stourbridge Junction and finally 84B Oxley from where it was withdrawn in November 1964. Stored there until January 1965, Cut up Cashmores at Great Bridge. (This yard disposed of seven Manors). There is no building called COCKINGTON MANOR, which is a Domesday Book reference to the local area. The model village a mile or so west of Torquay is the location of a well-known Elizabethan house COCKINGTON COURT, owned by the Devon Rural Skills Trust.
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