Would you like to adopt one of the original GWR ‘County’ 4-4-0s and have a framed photo for your wall? With our Forty 4-4-0s Club you can, and in doing so help us raise the
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Author: Gary Boyd-Hope
Tyseley Open Weekend – June 22-23
THE CCT’s sales stand will be attending the Tyseley Locomotive Works open weekend on June 22-23, where visitors will be able to get their first look at the various steel plates that will eventually form
Read moreSuccess! We are a charity
GIFT Aid and other associated benefits open to charities are now available to the Churchward County Trust (CCT) after the organisation was awarded charitable status by the Charity Commission on May 21. As Registered Charity
Read moreMain frame machining completed
GOODMAN Metal Works of Nottingham has completed the drilling and machining of County of Montgomery’s main frame plates. They will be delivered to Tyseley Locomotive Works on Tuesday, May 21. Meanwhile the various ‘inner’ platework
Read moreNo. 3840’s frames go for machining
THE main frame plates for County of Montgomery have been sent to Goodman Metals of Netherfield, Nottingham to have the 200 various holes drilled, and the axlebox cut-outs machined. The company is no stranger to
Read moreIntroducing the Forty 4-4-0s Club
WITH all the platework required to assemble ‘County of Montgomery’s’ main frames now cut (or being cut) and awaiting machining, the Trust is looking ahead at the next stage of the project and progressing the
Read moreLast chance to join the cct founders’ club
THE end of February sees the Churchward County Trust (CCT) mark its first anniversary, which means there are only a few weeks left to join the Founders’ Club before it closes to new members. The
Read moreCan you help our 100 Hundreds Appeal reach its target?
Our 100 Hundreds Appeal is aiming to raise the £10,000 required to carry out the milling and drilling of ‘County of Montgomery’s’ main frame plates by recruiting one hundred individuals to each donate £100. In
Read moreSecond major steel order foR No. 3840
We are delighted to announce that we have placed a second large order with Tata Steel of Wednesfield for the 22 various plates that will eventually form the frame stretchers for new-build GWR ‘County’ class
Read moreCounty of Montgomery’s frames cut
MORE than 107 years after the last set of frames were cut for a Great Western Railway ‘County’ class 4-4-0 at Swindon Works, the 41st member of the class officially came into being today (November
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