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THE Churchward County Trust is calling on supporters to get behind its bid to win a £1,000 boost as part of specialist insurer Ecclesiastical’s annual 12 days of giving Christmas campaign. Ecclesiastical will be giving

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IF a steam locomotive’s whistle can be regarded as its ‘voice’, then No. 3840 County of Montgomery will not be silent following the generous donation of a pair of Great Western Railway brass locomotive whistles

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DONATIONS towards the cost of building County of Montgomery are always welcome, but as we move towards turning our cut metal plates into a set of locomotive frames, the more donations we can get the

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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