DNGR gate notice. Source: TRA719
These web pages, now into their twenty fourth year in September 2019, are mainly on Irish railway memorabilia (for transatlantic visitors - railroadiana), with information on the market for brass, enamel and cast iron signs (updated most months), gradually expanding to other items, grouped under:
DNGR gate notice. Source: TRA719
Limited information is also given on UK, Belgian and French railwayana, together with some resources for Irish luggage labels and tickets. Other interests covered are model railways (model railroads) and DCC Lenz system. Sometimes the Miscellanea page seeks input on unusual material, but nothing of late.
are also provided, and
checked and updated generally on a regular basis (most recently on
26/10/16). If lost,click on the 'Site Map' 
icon at the end of each page for navigation
choices. You will also find a site search facility on that
page. Various photos of Irish
railwayana (gradually relegated from page 2) complete the
pages. This is just a sampler for the much fuller
information on the second general site.
You can e-mail me at
home. This site is down for the moment. Any photos
of Irish railwayana would be particularly appreciated (up
to now one contributor accounts for the majority of extra
photos!). These could be scanned and inserted into more
comprehensive pages on the varieties for individual
companies.
A more detailed Irish railwayana site, which went on line on 27/7/97 (originally on geocities - but as of August 2004 that version was gone), treats most Irish railway companies separately. While the site id down for the moment, it has short potted histories of companies and illustrations of 1171 (at last count in November 2007, but increasing by the year) Irish signs etc. Some company pages are fuller than others. It is advisable, if working on a slow connection, to check on the index page (where the size of text and graphics files are indicated) for the extent of the graphics download. A third site, dealing with genealogy, principally the Dublin Lenn*ns, has now been up and running since 1999 on rootsweb (a mirror image is on this server together with more recent photo pages).
After failing to
update later than March the 2018-19 'Overall Market' page is now up to
date. A mid-March 2019 major update included recent results including
those at Purcells on 12-13 March 2018. There were further updates
through to 3 August and subsequently in September and 8 December 2019
as well as in January, February and June 2020.
Data on prices in the individual company sections were brought up to
date to end-2018. The links page has been checked pretty recently. Many
broken links in other pages have been eliminated. Please excuse any that
remain. The companion site
which was
quite out of date and is slowly being updated. For the moment all the
new stuff is on a separate page and some larger photos are not yet there.
You can determine which larger photos are unavailable for the next few
months since they will only say (full image) or (full image NA) after
the title of the smaller image. So all the rest of the 2017 and 2018
with bigger images is presently available
here,
where a larger size of the image is specified in a link.
This site's previous
host(Innet, then Uunet) became Tiscali many years ago and then
Scarlet. The paid-for host for this particular owned
site (www.lennan.be) provides large storage capacity and is now
the only reference site. Updates will always be here. As noted, many of
the company pages on the more general Irish companies'
site. also owned and hosting paid for, were updated recently.
You will usually find larger
versions of the smaller photos which appear at the end of the overall
market page on this site on the bigger general site which is not geared
to prices, just to surviving items. But you may have to wait for the
less than regular updates.
Apologies for the limited expertise in html, poor photographic skill and grossly inadequate standardization of images. Credits for the early auction data goes to the Railway Collectors' Journal (RCJ). The RCJ announced that from end-2005 material would be published on the Prorail site rather than in printed form. The monthly Railway Antiques Gazette (RAG), with much of interest to collectors, was published since since September 2003, but has wound up, as all good things do. The last publication was for August 2018. It was published by Tim Petchey and was available by subscription (but not any more, although back issues of that Bible may be available), and cost £3.95 per issue plus overseas postage, from the RAG Office, 23 Gloucester St., Winchcombe, Glocs. GL54 5LX. Talisman Railwayana Auctions (TRA) are held every few months. Kiddlington (KRA) auctions, which previously was perhaps the most consistent venue for signalling items, is now part of GCR. Onslows too is online, with some great pictures of posters, a specialty of this location (but save them before they disappear). Another early source for many images is the colour catalogue (but images then can be pretty basic), from Sheffield Railwayana Auctions (SRA), mailing address: 4 The Glebe, Clapham, Bedford, MK41 6GA. SRA has now been acquired by GCR but will continue to be run as before. Abbreviations used in auction results are BIT & BT - Bitton, BON - Bonhams, BRI - Bristol, BRK - Brookside, CAL - Callanish, CHF - Cheffin's, CHO - Chorley, CHR - Christies, CRW - Special SRA/BRA Sale, CRE- Crewe, DRE - Dreweatts, Bristol, GCA/GCR - Great Central (Railwayana) Auctions, GIL - Gilding's, Market Harborough, GLO - Gloucester Railwayana GNR - Great Northern Railwayana Auction, GRA - Gloucester Railwayana Auctions, GWR - Gloucester Worcestershire Railwayana, KID - George Kidner, Pennington, KFR - Knight, Frank & Rutley, KRA or ORA - Kiddlington (Oxford) or Kidlington Railwayana Auctions, JAC -Justa clickago Auctions, LO - Loughborough, MEA - Mealys, MCA - Midland Counties Auctions, MKA - Matlock (Midland), MRA - Midland Railway Auctions, MTN - Malton (Cundall's), ONS - Onslows, PPC - Paperchase, PHI - Phillips of Solihull, PRO - Prorail, PTA - Paddington Ticket Auctions, PUR -Purcell's, Birr, Co. Offaly. RCA - Railway Collector's Newsletter Auction, RNT - Railwayana.net, RPA - Railway Preservation,Keynsham, RAUK - Railwayana Auctions UK, RRA - Railway Relics Co., RUG - Vectis/Potter, Rugby, SHM - Smith, Hodginson & McGinty, SOL - Solent, SOM - Somerset Railwayana Auctions, SOT - Sothebys, STA - Stafford, STD - 'Stop the drop' Auction, STK - Stoke, STL - Southall, STN - Stoneleigh, THR - Thirsk Railwayana Auction, TRA - Talisman Railwayana Auctions, VEC - Vectis, WHY - Whytes (Dublin), WT - Watford (Cundall's). More generally in these pages, TT are timetables and Adv refers to items advertised for sale in the named publication, up to recently in the Railway Collector's Journal. Where Froggatt (Railway buttons, badges and uniforms, 1986) references for buttons are available, they are indicated with 'F.' plus number. Dates are always in month year format, i.e. 894=August 1994. Posters give indications of size where available (e.g. dr=double royal). Price abbreviations include £ns (not sold), £of (offers), £forx (for exchange), £of@ (offered at) and £wd (withdrawn). Publications covered include Trackdown (TCK) and Railway Collectors' Newsletter (RCN) - the predecessors of RCJ and RAG. Relevant information given in catalogues is reproduced, rather than being interpreted. Inches are, however, converted to centimeters or mm, but conversions from some sites where indeterminate fractions are inexact, since these fractions will be automatically converted as equal one half inch (not three quarters or a quarter inch).
Copyright ©: The material on this website is subject to copyright. Copyright in images, etc., where an external source is indicated, belongs to the original owners of that material. Where no external source is shown, permission is granted for use of material on this site for non-commercial purposes, on the basis of an acknowledgement of source.
Proceed to page 2, "The overall
market 2018- " for the recent Irish railwayana results.
Alternatively, go to my
railwayana.com pages
for company data
For genealogy, go to my Lennan
genealogy pages or their mirror on
this site
