Steam train recreation plans on track in Montgomery
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 absor...
Source: countytimes.co.uk