LOCO PLATES

[platelayer]

<t>Last weekend i took a very good friend up to Hampton Loade railway station on the SVR to collect his latest acquisition.... a replica brass LNER A4 name plate MERLIN. I came home with a cabside number plate for GWR prairie tank 4150, it was a spare casting from when they made replacement number plates for the loco.

[Walkingthedog]

All you need to do now is move to a house at the far end of a very long road.

[Steve M]

They look good.

When we bought our first house nearly 40 years ago, I had a replica number plate made up from an advert I saw in a newspaper. I think it cost me around £20 at the time - needs a repaint though.

20181007_180438 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[platelayer]

If either of you gents have about 7 feet of sturdy wall space, they have a NEWTON REPLICAS name plate for sale. A GWR County class, COUNTY OF CHESTER... yours for only £550.

[Mountain Goat]

I've never had any replica plates. I've had old ones which came from the real thing like one that says "Ruston" (Which I let a friend have as he happened to own a real one though since it has been scrapped) and things like old wagon plates etc.
I once tried to sell my 1840's-50's map which is made with a cloth backing. Someone who had seen the advert phoned up and said it wasn't worth anything. I said OK, and left it at that, as he didn't have to buy it. The crazy man then travelled half way across the country to see it to try to tell me someone had drawn on the railway lines of the map in ink and it was valueless so I had to sell it to him for what he offered me (A very low sum). I refused. I knew the old maps had the railway lines hand inked in so it was puzzling that the man claimed he was an expert. I had already dropped my price the times for him before he came so I wasn't amused that he had come after saying it wasn't worth anything. He left and for the next few weeks I had almost endless calls saying how he wanted to buy it and his offer was the best etc... He was absolutely off his rocker! I'm sane and I still have the map!