TWO DAY: Glorious Trains Auction (0 Gauge and Larger Gauges)

Order of Sale

Day 1 -  Tuesday 25^th June 2024 @ 10:00 am BST

001 to 016 - On30 and On2 Gauges
017 to 096 - Fine 0 Gauge
097 to 121 - Single Owner Collection Mr A Buckland O Gauge -  *scroll down for foreword*
122 to 328 - Australian Single Owner 0 Gauge Collection - *subject to 20% charge on Hammer Price*
329 to 414 - Modern O Gauge
415 to 509 - Other O Gauge, mainly Vintage

End of Day 1

Day 2 - Wednesday 26^th June 2024 @ 10:00 am BST

510 to 532 - Railway Collectables
533 to 555 - Original Railway Paintings, Signed copies and Prints
556 to 614 - Hornby 0 Gauge
615 to 686 - Bassett-Lowke and Exley 0 Gauge
687 to 750 - Vintage Gauge 1
751 to 761 - Other Gauge 1
762 to 790 - LGB and other similar Garden Railways
791 to 947 - Wide Gauges and Live Steam

End of Auction

Payment
Prefered method, Bank Transfer or UK Registered Debit Card.
International Buyers must pay by Bank Transfer only.
(No Credit Cards Accepted) 

If you wish to consign any of your items in our forthcoming auctions, please contact us.

Please call 01635 580 595 or email mail@specialauctionservices.com to make an appointment

You can register to bid via our website www.specialauctionservices.com. If you are a successful bidder you will be emailed an invoice. Upon receipt of payment via bank transfer, your items can be made ready for collection by appointment only

Foreword

The Alan Buckland Collection

Alan was born in Acton, London in 1938. His grandfather drove one of the first steam lorries at Paddington station, his uncle worked at Old Oak shunting yard, his father worked at Ruislip London Transport station, and his home backed onto the Richmond- Broad Street line, now part of the London Overground line. So his love of railways and love of the G.W.R. was inevitable and life long. 

As a boy he sat at Acton G.W.R station recording engine numbers in his spotters book, which we still have, and using these numbers later on the 'O' gauge engines he later built. His first model layout was a totally mixed collection of tin-plate coaches and engines bought by his father from the local second-hand dealer. He went on to build two narrow gauge layouts, an 'OO' gauge layout for his daughters, a 20ft EM gauge layout at home, an 'O' gauge layout and finally his dream loft layout which he finished only months before he passed away in 2022. 

Alan's passion was the Great Western Railway. He was a long term member of the Great Western Society, a  member of the gauge 'O' Guild and  a Friend of Pendon . In his later years he fulfilled his dream of opening a model shop specialising in model trains - A &M Models in New Alresford. Alan was a skillful modeller and a talented painter and signwriter. His scratch built buildings and kit-built engines and other rolling stock are all built to scale and hand painted.