The official website for the 1014 County Project recreating a Great Western Hawksworth County, County of Glamorgan, at the Didcot Railway Centre, home of the Great Western Society. The Website includes a history of GWR 4-6-0s, and regular updates on progress, and ways to donate.

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Invitation to a County 1014 Day at Didcot on Saturday 22nd April 2023 Following the arrival of the rebuilt No. 15 OA boiler from... Here at the County project, following a dusting off following the Christmas break, we are all excited for what the new year will bring.... The latest component is on a pallet and awaiting delivery to Didcot.

No.1014 County of Glamorgan is a steam locomotive which is under construction as a "new-build" project, based at Didcot Railway Centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Rebuild the 8F boiler as a Swindon Standard 15 OA (three-row superheater) boiler, add smokebox and double chimney. Refurbishment and/or acquisition of the motion, manufacture of fittings and pipe work. Construction of a new, all-welded, flat-sided Hawksworth tender.

No. 1014 County of Glamorgan is a steam locomotive which is under construction as a "new-build" project, based at Didcot Railway Centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Unlike most other new-build projects which are underway and are building new members of lost classes like 2007 Prince of Wales and 2999...

1014 ‘County of Glamorgan’ - David Bradshaw, a GWS member, instigated a proposal to remedy the missing County. He calculated that amongst the last group of unrestored locomotives, once stored in Woodham's scrapyard at Barry, were sufficient standard parts to form a basis for a County - with modifications and some new-build.

Following several years of negotiations with Vale of Glamorgan County Council and planning, the G.W. County Project was launched in December 2004, to recreate a County, at Didcot, utilising the frames of a Modified Hall and a Stanier 8F boiler, from which the County boiler was derived.

2018年3月2日 · Returning back to a New Build Project focusing on a Great Western Railway (GWR) design, this week, we are looking at 1014 The G.W. County Project and their progress on building a replica 1014 “County of Glamorgan”, of the Hawksworth 10XX ‘Country’ Class.

2022年2月19日 · The 1014 GWR County Project has issued its latest update on progress to create a County Class locomotive, in late British Railways condition, as authentically as possible.