OUR appeal to raise £40,000 to have the four coupled wheels cast for No. 3840 County of Montgomery has passed the quarter-way mark. The ‘Forty 4-4-0s Club’ was launched back in March as a long-term appeal in which supporters can…
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 120 different charities an early…
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 to the Churchward County Trust…
WE are delighted to announce that the order for the front-end extension frames for No. 3840 County of Montgomery has been placed with Roach Precision in Brierley Hill, West Midlands. In typical Churchward practice, the American-style extension frames will form…
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 better. Consequently we have set…
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 £40,000 required to cast the…
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 County of Montgomery's frames. The…
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 No. 1183514 the CCT will…
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 arrived at Tyseley on Thursday,…
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 working on steam locomotives, having…