OPEN TO ALL

Restoring a steam locomotive from Barry scrapyard condition has now been completed numerous times and there are many fine examples operating in the UK, but there are still a few such locomotives which have yet to feel the warmth of a fire and the gentle build-up of steam coursing through their tubes. GWR 28XX No. 2874 is one example, but is now being slowly restored by the 2874 Trust on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway at Toddington.

The Churchward 2-8-0 has had a slow journey to where it is now, having been withdrawn from BR service and dispatched to Dai Woodham’s Barry yard in 1963, then departing to the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway in 1987, followed by a move to the West Somerset Railway in 2007. Two years later the locomotive was sold to Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd and moved in 2014 to Toddington, where it). Work has finally commenced on the restoration.