DIESEL PLATE CLASS RECORDS BROKEN AT AUCTION

摘要

With auction houses across the land reporting a 20 per cent uplift in business during lockdown while going purely online with no live audiences, railwayana auctions have certainly followed this trend. Railwayana Auctions UK held its fourth online auction of the year - twice as many as its normal 'live' auctions - over the four days of October 30 to November 2 under its Mid-Hants Railwayana banner, where a strong appetite for items from both the steam era and the heritage diesel era appears unabated. Class records were broken in the classic traction Class 52 'Westerns' and Class 43 'Warships' diesel hydraulic sectors, with the nameplate and cabside numberplate from 'second in the class' Western Explorer and numberplate D1002 reaching £16,200 on the hammer and the nameplate from 'Warship' Roebuck fetching £12,500.