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The Churchward County Trust, which is building a full-size recreation of a Great Western Railway (GWR) ‘County’ class 4-4-0 locomotive named ‘County of Montgomery’, has unveiled the loco’s new nameplates. Forty of the original ‘County’ locos were built between 1904 and 1912, with 11 named after Welsh counties on the GWR network. Montgomeryshire was not included in the GWR’s naming scheme at that time as it was a Cambrian Railways stronghold, but the county found itself at the heart of the GWR following the grouping of railway companies in 1923 when the Cambrian was absorbed into the GWR. It was for this reason that the Churchward County Trust selected the name County of Montgomery for its new loco.
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SHORTLY after midday on January 26, 1921, a rail disaster in Abermule would claim the lives of 17 people. The disaster remains the worst single track accident in British railway history and would hasten the demise of the Cambrian Railway which was absorbed into the Great Western Railway a year later. Among the victims was Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, a director of the Cambrian Railway, who had boarded the train in Machynlleth that morning though tragically died when two trains met in a head on collision near Abermule. News of the disaster spread around the world and Abermule would become synonymous with the rail disaster which had been caused by human error and breaches of company rules.