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Lot 200
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Brass Steam Locomotive nameplate "DORCHESTER CASTLE" As carried by a Collett designed ex GWR 4073 class 4-6-0 No "4090" built at Swindon Works in August 1925. Allocations included Penzance, Plymouth Laira, Newton Abbot, Exeter, Wolverhampton Stafford Road, Landore, Carmarthen, Old Oak Common, Shrewsbury and Cardiff East Dock from where it was withdrawn in June 1963. Cut up at Cashmore's Newport, South Wales 06/64. Superb ex Loco Condition. Dorchester Castle was a motte and bailey castle in the market town of Dorchester, Dorset there are no visible remains to-day except for a gatehouse built in 1790 which is now a listed building.
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