THE Churchward County Trust (CCT) is hoping to build on the success of its first year by launching a new ‘Forty 4-4-0s Club’ to raise the £40,000 required to cast the four coupled wheels for new-build GWR 4-4-0 No. 3840 County of Montgomery.
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All the platework required to assemble the main frames is cut and ready for delivery to Tyseley, and a source of funding has been identified to pay for the manufacture of the extension frames.
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The CCT is now looking ahead at the next stage of the project and turning the frames into a rolling chassis.
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The trust already has a significant head start in this regard, thanks largely to the Great Western Society, which is providing the two 3ft 2in-diameter wheelsets (plus horns and axleboxes) for No. 3840’s bogie and also the pattern for the driving wheels.
Read more in the March 2019 issue of The RM – on sale now!