Toddington gets first choice over new GWR County
Apr 13, 2021
3 minutes
By Robin Jones
GARY BOYD-HOPE
CCT
RAIL ARCHIVE STEPHENSON/G/WR
GWR Churchward 4-4-0 No. 3840 County of Montgomery could be based on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – once a regular haunt for the class.
A new agreement between the Cotswold heritage line and locomotive builder the Churchward County Trust gives the railway the first option to be the home of No. 3840 when it is completed at Tyseley Locomtive Works.
The agreement, which supersedes an earlier ‘agreement in principle’ between the two, would see the engine based at
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