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County of Montgomery to be built at Toddington

A NEW company has been formed to take the Great Western Society’s £1.5 million project to build a new 38XX County 4-4-0 to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

While affiliated to the society, the Churchward County Trust Ltd has been established as an independent company in its own right to build the 41st locomotive in the class using a combination of original GWR parts and all-new components.

The origins of the scheme go back to 2005 when the GWS signed the ‘Three Counties Agreement’ with Vale of Glamorgan Council, the goal

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