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    New Churchward ‘County’ 4-4-0 to be built at Toddington

    Nov 04, 2018 3 minutes
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    PICTURE the scene: A passenger train of chocolate & cream carriages runs into the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway’s new Broadway station, hauled by a gleaming Churchward‘38XX’ ‘County’4-4-0.

    The tableau is almost pure 1920s Great Western, yet both the station and locomotive are in fact 21st century re-creations of the originals. It may sound like the stuff of fantasy, but the‘County’ 4-4-0 is set to become a reality after the Great Western Society (GWS) handed over its long-dormant project to build

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