Paddington Ticket Auction,
Special Postal Version

Lot 1

Eastern Counties Railway, route opened 1839/40, becoming GER in 1862.

Lot 2

Eastern Counties Railway Market Ticket. The Leiston branch opened in 1959 and became GER in 1862.

Lot 3

Great Eastern Railway, an early return, 1866?, halves rejoined.

Lot 4

GNR, First, 1861, coat of arms on the back.

Lot 5

GWR, very early single. The route opened in 1848. Ticket No 32.

Lot 6

GWR, GC & NE Railways, special issue, opening of Cheltenham's Hatherley loop providing direct north east to south west running for the Port to Port Express which linked Newcastle and Hull with Barry and Swansea.

Lot 7

Hampstead Junction Railway, absorbed by the North London Railway in 1867.

Lot 8

Hoylake and Birkenhead Railway, 1872-1881

Lot 9

Liverpool, St Helens & South Lancashire Railway, opened 1895, absorbed by the GCR in 1906.

Lot 10

Llanelly & Mynydd Mawr Railway, 1911. Opened 1883, absorbed by the GWR in 1923.