£220
An Indian cabside numberplate, 524 YD from a metre gauge 2-8-2 of Indian Railways Standard (IRS) class YD, built at the Bombay, Baroda & Central India's metre gauge works at Ajmer in 1932, BBCIR no.264, as one of a batch of 15 YD/4. It was one of 5 transferred to the Assam-Bengal Railway the same year becoming their no.224. From 1942 the ABR was absorbed into the new Bengal-Assam Railway and renumbered again, to 524, at which time this numberplate was made. In the 1947 partition of India it was included in the East Pakistan system known initially as the Eastern Bengal Railway, (later Bangladesh Railways from Dec 1971). However in 1954 it was shipped to West Pakistan where it worked on metre gauge lines inherited from India, adjacent to the former BBCIR system. It was in regular use on Pakistan Railway's system out of Mirpur Khas until 2005, still numbered 524, but in 2006 those lines were broad gauged and the metre gauge locos scrapped. Cast iron, 15¼"x11½", the front repainted. (Dispatch by Mailboxes/Collect from Banbury Depot)
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