Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 383
Great North of England Railway Company, £100 share, 1836, vignette of coupling links at left with connecting towns engraved, black, slightly grubby on reverse, about very fine and scarce. Authorised in 1836 to build a main line from York to Newcastle but only the 44 miles from York to Darlington were opened (1841). Later amalgamated with the Darlington and Newcastle Junction, eventually to become the North Eastern Railway. Estimate £ 120-150
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