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Updated Oct 30, 2023

Lots 401-420

Lot No Lot Detail

401

Full Size Photographic COPY of a Great Eastern Railway Poster, promoting HARLOW GARDEN VILLAGE. Framed and glazed. Size 29in x 40in.

Guide: £20-40


Category: Posters

402

Midland Railway pegging block instrument in mahogany case. In pretty good original condition with a couple of minor dinks. Original enamel faceplate in perfect condition. Fitted with traffolite 'Up Line' plate.

Guide: £120-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £100 (PB 1662)

403

G.W.R Spagnoletti double-line block instrument in nice original condition complete with both coloured pegging buttons. This is an intermediate pattern instrument with the later, less ornate style of mahogany case but with early pattern flags and separate brass castings for the reminder flaps.

Guide: £150-200


Category: Block and Bell Instruments

404

G.W.R 1947 pattern double-line block instrument. Probably the best designed block instrument ever used on a British railway. Good, original condition with free-swinging needles and both reminder flaps present. Dials are undamaged but could do with a wipe over with a damp cloth.

Guide: £120-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £150 (PB 1662)

405

Midland Railway Rotary Block Instrument. Nice original condition with all the cast brass description plates in place. Looks like a later 'train waiting' warning light has been subsequently removed and the hole neatly plugged with a small brass plate. The sealed-release label is still present over the 'Train On Line Cancel' button.

Guide: £150-200


Category: Block and Bell Instruments

406

LNER double-line block instrument with Tyers rotary commutator and cast-brass description plate. Pretty good overall condition both needles appear to swing OK. These instruments are always popular.

Guide: £100-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £120 (PB 1662)

407

Great Central Railway single-needle pegging block instrument in superb condition. Lovely mahogany case with brass fittings. Unusually, the completely original dial is lettered 'G.C.R' in ornate serif characters.

Guide: £150-180


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £360 (PB 1643)

408

LNER double-line block instrument with Tyers rotary commutator and cast brass description plate. This is a particularly nice, clean example with dials in excellent condition and free-swinging needles.

Guide: £120-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £100 (PB 1662)

409

Midland Railway single-needle pegging block instrument in mahogany case with brass fittings. Well marked with the company initials. Pretty good overall condition except that the white dial could do with a clean.

Guide: £100-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £100 (PB 1662)

410

North Eastern Railway Tyers rotary tell-tale block instrument. The original dial, with its attractive shadowed lettering is in nice condition. This is a very early example with wood, rather than brass, beading around the tell-tale window. The glass over the tell-tale is cracked but is easily replaced should you wish to.

Guide: £150-180


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £120 (PB 1662)

411

Midland Railway non-tapper block bell, fitted with a small sheep-dome. The case is in fairly good condition with both brass knurled securing screws in place.

Guide: £80-120


Category: Block and Bell Instruments

412

Tyers block bell in very nice original condition with lots of patina. These large-cased relay bells were usually used with the various types of Tyers one-wire block instruments. A particularly nice example.

Guide: £100-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments

413

North Eastern Railway split-case pattern tapper block bell. Excellent condition with unusual, small church-bell pattern dome.

Guide: £100-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments

414

G.W.R tapper block bell in a very unusual oak and plywood case with nickel plated cow-bell dome and cast cruciform stand. Quite a rare wartime production.

Guide: £120-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £160 (PB 211)

415

LMS/B.R(M) bakelite-cased 'universal' distant signal repeater with Midland Region pattern engraved plastic lever number plate '93'. Reasonably good condition with working needle and both knurled securing screws present.

Guide: £50-70


Category: Signalling Equipment

416

North Eastern Railway split-case tapper block gong, with spiral steel gong instead of the usual bell dome. In excellent, totally ex-service condition.

Guide: £60-80


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £90 (PB 508)

417

Tyers mahogany-cased gong in excellent, untouched original condition. This is one of the smaller-cased Tyers bells and was probably used in conjunction with a single line tablet instrument.

Guide: £60-80


Category: Block and Bell Instruments
Lot Sold For: £150 (PB 1)

418

North British Railway split-cased block bell with small brass mushroom bell dome. In good original condition with all the case fittings present. North British bells have a very distinctive brass stop beneath the front of the tapper key.

Guide: £120-150


Category: Block and Bell Instruments

419

Oak-cased 'D'-type two-button telephone complete with bakelite handset, both call buttons and engraved ivorine instruction plate. A nice example with a well-polished brass bell.

Guide: £60-80


Category: Signalling Equipment
Lot Sold For: £80 (PB 501)

420

Siemens Type EA power-frame home signal lever mounted on home-made mahogany base. Very few Siemens EA frames were manufactured and the only UK installations were in Edinburgh Waverley East & West boxes (total 434 levers), Fenchurch Street (140 levers) and a small frame in Reading East Box of 36 levers. This example comes from one of the Edinburgh boxes.

Guide: £80-120


Category: Signalling Equipment

 

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