Shaw Saville on ebay
 

18 hours left to put in a bid for 35009 Shaw Saville on ebay. Reserve price only £100,000.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rebuilt-Bullei...QQcmdZViewItem

I wonder what the postage cost will be? :D

Oh I wish I had that sort of money !

Is there a pic of it in one piece?

Not since 1966 :p

"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to put all the bits back together again.
This tape will self destruct in 15 seconds................" :D:D

Oh well at least at £7600 it beat the market price for steel scrap at £90/ton so it wasnt a scrap merchant bidding on it.;) So now we know the price of an unrestored Bulleid, and that should knock the price back of the others for sale. £300,000 (I think) asking price for Brocklebank Line. Yeah, Right!

http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metalsPrices.jsp


Having given a bit more thought to this, perhaps it wasnt that far off the scrap price. A MN weighs 97 tons in working order, i.e. with a full boiler and 5" of coal in the firebox. So maybe Shaw Saville now weighs 50-60 tons........... say £5000 worth of steel, plus unspecified non-ferrous bits that IR says were included......... which could add another couple of grand to the bid.

If he hadnt put a reserve price on, it could have been bought by the scrap men. .:eek: