The overall market for Irish railwayana - some comments (2012-)

GNRI Newry Edward St station plaque. Source: SRA911

First quarter 2012

GCR on 14/1 had: a locomotive worksplate, Metropolitan Vickers, 1955, from a CIE Class A Co-Co DE cast brass, 46x13cm, ex loco condition with original paintwork £380, BR(W) qr poster, Fishguard-Rosslare,The shortest Sea Route to Ireland, by John S Smith, rolled, (PR168/60) £250, A BR(Sc) quad royal poster, Great Britain and Ireland TSS Caledonian Princess, by Johnson, a panoramic view of Stranraer Harbour station (B33951) £100, Framed carriage print, Kilkenny Castle, a colour tinted example produced for the GWR by the Photochrom Co. circa 1895 £85, A CIE three aspect handlamp, with a copper plate Westland Row 12 (Dublin), the top and the vessel stamped with company initials, the lamp in original condition £120.

Stafford on 21/1 had: 1970’s d/s wooden station platform destination board 'Motor Rail Services to Fishguard for Ireland via Rosslare - Maidenhead, Slough and all stations to Paddington' black lettering on a white background, ex-Reading General, 97x15cm £50, dr poster 'B & I Line Dublin Liverpool' British & Irish Steam Packet Co Ltd. good rolled condition £ns, dr poster 'Ireland by CIE' by Curran good rolled condition £150.

TRA on 11/2 had: a miniature steel staff ('C' configuration). 'Lismore-Ballyduff' £320, GSWR, oval cast iron wagon plate 'GSWR 7164 Inchicore Works' unrestored 32x17cm £ns, GSR 3 aspect handlamp, top stamped 'G.S.R.' as is the original vessel, complete with burner, reflector and all glasses, restored, door sliding catch is missing £100, miniature steel staff ('B' configuration) 'Ballyduff-Fermoy' £280.

SRA on 10/3 had: Irish railway standard Harpers wooden cases block instrument with glazed front showing 'Down Line' and 'Up Line' with semaphore signals pivoted from central brass post showing the state of the line, below the display is a glazed aperture showing 'Train on line', 'All clear' and 'Train off but section blocked' which are moved round by the brass knob below, at the base is a brass plunger, the instrument is labelled by the maker 'WR Sykes' and comes complete with a key to lock the front opening case. 27x14cm base, 55cm high in good unrestored condition, origin unknown £850, Cast iron cabside numberplate: 'Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway 4 Crewe Works 1876' from the 0-6-0ST No. 4 named 'NEWRY' one of two built at Crewe in 1876 to the design of LNWR Chief Mechanical Engineer, John Ramsbottom, to work the extension of the line to Newry. The sixth and final locomotive was added in 1898, the locomotives were consecutively numbered, in order of building, from 1 to 6 and all carried names. During WW2 three of the remaining five locomotives were loaned to the LMS-NCC for shunting duties around York Road, Belfast, but were returned due to not being satisfactory for the NCC's needs, the line closed on 31 December 1951 but by this time only one loco was serviceable. 'NEWRY' was scrapped by Hammond Lane Foundry, Sutton, Co. Dublin. An LNWR style plate, 73x30cm with rounded ends, in ex-loco condition both sides, with a hairline crack visible at the right hand end through the bolt hole £1900, BR(M) dr poster: Londonderry-Travel there in comfort by sea and train (Kerry Lee) 1953, folded, edge tears, good otherwise, £100, GNRI ground signal lamp having two red bullseye lenses, with red and white signals one fixed in the 'stop' position, the other fixed in the 'proceed' position. In working order, the signal swivelled through 90° to change aspect, miniature tell-tale clear lens at rear, lifting reducing cone and copper topped chimney with the initials 'GNRI' stamped thereon, no innards, in good, ex-lineside condition £100, LMS-NCC Silverplate grape scissors manufactured by Elkington, 18cm long the initials 'LMS-NCC' are clearly incised into one of the handles, vgc £ns, GSR Original gold leaf coat of arms professionally mounted on a board 42x44cm vgc £30, LMS-NCC china chamber pot by Dunn Bennet & Co., Burslem, 23cm diameter rim, 13cm high, pot with the company title in full in a belted garter surrounding part of the company coat of arms, and the words 'Northern Counties Committee' below it glazed in light blue into the side, vgc £280, BCDR standard type 'Adlake' lamp with clear bullseye lens, unusual in that it has a small brass label on the back with the initials 'BCDR', these lamps were rarely marked in such a way, 17x39cm in original condition £20, Irish railway copper 3-sided station lamp with two glazed sides, one side opening, the back plain metal and provision for wall fixing, overall dimensions: 38cm wide, 47cm high, glazing 29x33cm, no innards, no railway identification, nor place name, good ex-station condition £55, brass single line tablet: 'Limavady-Limavady Junc 25', square type in good ex-section condition £180.

While there is nothing Irish in the SRA telephone auction, the SRA postal auction in March has: GSWR director's report and statement of accounts for half year ending June 1901. 18p, folded est£10 £ns, BNCR time and faretable booklet, illustrated paperback covers showing ship and places served, 120pp plus fold out map, dated August 1901, spine and r/h edge of front cover taped £55, CVBTC small poster type PTT. 33x23cm, two small string tears along top edge, dated June 1932 folded £140, DNGR handbill type 1pp PTT for services on the Newry and Dundalk lines. Dated June 1933 £190, LLSR 3 page typescript WTT dated March 1952 £10, CDRJC WTT. 4pp dated June 1953 £12, GSR PTT, brown and cream covers, foolscap sized, 56pp dated July 1925, covers detached at rusty staples, a little dog-eared £60, GNRI WTT of the Sutton and Howth Electric Tramway, 4pp thin card, dated September 1952 £14, LMS-NCC PTT booklet, pocket size, maroon and cream covers, 176pp dated June 1936 £18, CDRJC (including Strabane and Letterkenny Railway) timetable booklet, red and black print on cream coloured covers showing company railcar, 32p including adverts, dated October 1957, plus company free pass for all stations (2) £30, Four CIE PTT booklets, dated Winter 1952, 1953, 1954, Summer 1966, plus GNRI PTT dated September 1952 (5) £22, Irish railways locally published timetable booklet 'The Red Guide', paperback, 84pp, dated December 1944 £30, GSWR official publication 'Hotels on the Grand Atlantic Route to Killarney', decorative card covers, 52pp guide with centre page map, dated 1903, gc est£28, CBSCR guide book 'Visit Glengarriff and the South West Coast', black and white artwork covers showing company coat of arms 36pp illustrated guide circa 1904, gc £40, CBSCR guide book 'Prince of Wales Route to the Lakes of Killarney via Bantry & Glengarriff', brown, gold and black card covers showing Prince of Wales feathers, 60pp plus adverts and fold out map, dated 1903, slight wear, generally OK £30, MR-NCC time and faretable booklet dated October 1907 36pp pocket sized booklet, coloured pictorial covers showing Dunluce Castle, disbound from larger volume causing a little spine damage, generally good £55, Two different Great Southern Hotels Ireland luggage labels from Killarney, green and orange design showing various company hotels and coloured photo type showing Eagle's Nest Mountain, slight creasing to top edge of second example (2) £24, Carriage print MV Cambria British Railways Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire Service by Claude Buckle (LMR series), small mark to white border, plus Hamilton Ellis carriage print showing Leicester and Swannington train (2) £12.

The railwayana.net auction on 25/3 had nothing Irish.

The GCR postal auction on 30/3 had: an MV Cambria carriage print, in original frame, fine ex-coach condition £30, GNRI cast iron Trespass, small size 20x14cm, original condition, the letter 'I' intact £30, GNRB coa, a pair of unmounted 20cm garter coa which would have been used on loco splashers £3, CDRJC, a collection of 79 tickets, in glazed frame, 76x61cm £10, LMSNCC Track Circuit No. 109, cast iron oval 29x23cm, old weld repair to the left hand side, unrestored £30.

The GCR main auction on 14/4 had: a GNRI signal box diagram, Fintona Junction, from the Enniskillen to Derry route, which includes the platform used by the horse-drawn tram that operated the Fintona branch, 114x48cm, rolled, drawn by the Signal Superintendent's Office, Dublin, 1945, with a 1953 note lower right that the down distant is now slotted to Racrane Crossing £380, GSWR dr poster promoting the Liverpool Overhead Railway to visitors travelling to England, featuring views and vignettes of the line, rolled £240, CVR coa transfer, 27x29cm, mounted on a maroon board, overall 33x38cm £100, an LMSNCC solid silver cigarette case, marked with the year 1933 and the owner's initials, G.W., 8x8cm, curved to fit a jacket pocket £360, locomotive headboard, 'The Shamrock', as carried on the Euston to Liverpool (Lime Street) service which operated in conjunction with sailings from Liverpool to Dublin and Belfast, inaugural titled run was on 14 June 1954 and its last on 16 April 1966, the front paintwork has been lightly cleaned, the back is untouched and marked '8F' £1500, A Webb and Thompson large staff, Ballyhaise-Belturbet £500, A Webb and Thompson large staff, Beleek-Castlecaldwell £460.

Talisman in its auction of 513 lots on 5/5 has nothing Irish but it still has the, unsold at its February auction, GSWR 7164 Inchicore Works plate now offered at £170.

Stafford on 12/5 has nothing Irish.

GWRA on 19/5 has: Lot 173 poster Fishguard-Cork 'Direct Service: The Innisfallen way, British & Irish Steam Packet Co. Ltd' by Derrick Moody dr, view of the Innisfallen ship lit by moonlight surrounded by a Shamrock, exc. condition, Lot 250 Locomotive nameplate LYDIA, ex West Donegal Railway (later CDRJC) Class '1' 2-4-0 Locomotive built by Sharp Stewart in 1882. Measures 81x15cm and has both letters and rim brass riveted to a steel backplate, top rim is clearly stamped 'No 3', original 1960 receipt accompanies, to Patrick Mallon (who was Erecting Shop Superintendant at the GNRI workshops in Dundalk) for 21 shillings, Lot 251 brass loco whistle ex West Donegal Railway Class 1 locomotive, believed to be from No 3 Lydia, just over 33cm in length and having a barrel diameter of 4cm, the original 1960 receipt accompanies, made out to Patrick Mallon for £1, Lot 359 poster, 'The Antrim Coast Road-Ireland for Holidays', by Norman Wilkinson, LMS dr size, image of a hiker and local sat beside a rock out crop, bottom border has been trimmed by approximately one inch, folds and slight edge crinkling otherwise vgc, Lot 362 poster, 'M.V. Princess Victoria - new motor car ferry service Stranraer to Larne LMS - accommodation for 80 cars (driven on and off and 1500 passengers)', by Norman Wilkinson, LMS dr size, top half depicts a vibrant image of the ship in full flow, printed in Britain by Jordison London, folds and very minor edge crinkling otherwise exc., Lot 363 poster, 'Ireland Glengarriff - Heron Island, Glengarriff, Co Cork', by G H Bland, Great Southern Railways (Ireland) dr, image across the water to the hills in the distance, printed in Ireland by Hely's Ltd, Lithographers, Dublin, folds with one 4" tear of the top, minor edge tears and crinkling otherwise god.

DNGR cabside. Source: SRA312

An Irish Harper’s instrument. Source: SRA312

GNRI ground signal. Source: SRA312

GSR coat of arms. Source: SRA312

LMSNCC chamber pot. Source: SRA312

BR Londonderry poster. Source: SRA312

LMSNCC grape scissors. Source: SRA312

BCDR lamp. Source: SRA312

Limavady tablet. Source: SRA312

Irish station lamp. Source: SRA312

GSWR wagonplate. Source: TRA212

GSR handlamp. Source: TRA212

'Lismore-Ballyduff' miniature staff. Source: TRA212

CIE Metrovick worksplate. Source: GCR112

GWR 'Kilkenny Castle' carriage print. Source: GCR112

Fishguard-Rosslare poster. Source: GCR112

Larne-Stranraer poster. Source: GCR112

B & I Lines poster. Source: STA112

CIE poster. Source: STA112

BR 1970’s wooden destination board. Source: STA112

West Clare axlebox cover. Source: SRA1211 (postal auction)

SLNCR 'Hazelwood' or 'Lissadel' maker's plate. Source: SRA1211

GNRI tender plate. Source: SRA1211

GNRI tender plate (possibly No. 88 or 89). Source: SRA1211 (left side of photo built up)

GNRI small trespass. Source: SRA1211

Loco safety valve cover (thought to be from a Keady & Armagh contractors' loco). Source: SRA1211

BR(M) Bangor poster. Source: SRA1211

BR(W) Southern Ireland poster. Source: SRA1211

UTA coa. Source: GCR1211

GSR coa. Source: GCR1211

CDR coa. Source: GCR110.

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