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    Boiler is GW County’s next major target

    Jul 23, 2018 3 minutes
    By Gareth Evans
    GWS

    AROUND £300,000 is needed to complete new-build GWR 4-6-0 No. 1014 County of Glamorgan, according to the GW County Project, part of the Didcot Railway Centre-based Great Western Society.

    The society has launched a major drive to fund the boiler, together with a host of components, through sponsorship.

    The project is one of the beneficiaries of the so-called‘Barry 10’group of unrestored locomotives yielding parts to benefit other engines. Thus, the County uses the frames of Modified Hall No. 7927 and a Stanier 8F boiler, from which the County boiler

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