Cab plate 6963, cast brass for Throwley Hall, brass ex GWR, ...

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£900

Cab plate 6963, cast brass for Throwley Hall, brass ex GWR, built unnamed April 1944. First shed allocation Wolverhampton, Stafford Road. Named January 1947. August 1950 shed allocation Shrewsbury. March 1959 shed allocation Cardiff Canton. May 1965 shed allocation Didcot. Last shed allocation Oxford. Withdrawn July 1965. Scrapped at Bird's, Long Marston. Copyright © by John Daniel 2013. 30 x 64cm.
The Great Western Railway 6963 or Modified Hall Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. They were a development by Frederick Hawksworth of Charles Collett's earlier GWR 4900 Hall Class and named after English and Welsh country houses. Although in outward appearance it looked almost the same, nearly everything about it was new.
The first 12 locomotives, 6959–6970, were built in 1944 without names, receiving them in 1946 and 1947, a further 59 were built over the years until the last in 1950, 7929. Six have been preserved.
The sale of this Cab Plate is subject to the Name Plate selling, should it not sell then the lot will be withdrawn.