Kings of the Castle class hit a new highpoint

“IT’S a British phenomenon,” said Sheffield Railwayana’s specialist Ian Wright of the wealthy private collectors who regularly pay thousands of pounds for locomotive nameplates, cabsides, posters and railway ephemera in Sheffield Railwayana's quarterly sales.

With some exceptions, foreign countries tended not to name their locomotives and with only a finite …

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