Medals Related to Railways, The 3,000th Locomotive Built at Crewe, 1887, bronze medals (2), both by J. Moore, bust of Victoria left, rev. steam engine left, 39mm (BHM 3340); Opening of the Clifton Rocks Funicular Railway, 1893, a white metal cross by H.B. Sale, car on the slope, rev. issued to the passengers, etc, 35mm (BHM 3459; cf. Swan 78) [3]. One Crewe medal very fine and with suspension loop, others extremely fine (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Railway Medals.

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The Crewe medal also commemorates the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the railway. The Clifton Rocks railway was built entirely in a tunnel close to the suspension bridge, rising up the escarpment 450 feet. Increased costs forced its closure in 1934