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Railway Name Plate

Railway. Name Plate ".Berry Pomeroy Castle". Ceremonial spade with which the first sod was turned on 3rd August 1865. Inscription reads - Presented to Mrs Hamlyn by Messrs Branson & Murray on the occasion of her cutting the first sod of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes &A shburton Railway on the 3rd day of August 1865. (Mrs Hamlyn being wife of Company director) Nameplate from GWR steam engine "Berry Pomeroy Castle" presented to museum by scrap dealers May 1964 Photographer Nicholas Horne REF: TOTEH 80 43 B6