The goal: GWR Churchward ‘County’ 4-4-0 No. 3828 County of Hereford is pictured at an unidentified shed, circa 1927.
C R GORDON STUART/RAIL ARCHIVE STEPHENSON
EIGHTY-SEVEN years ago this month, the last working example of George Churchward’s ‘County’ class of 4-4-0s, No. 3834 County of Somerset, was officially withdrawn from service at Tyseley shed.
Soon afterwards, the locomotive was sent to Swindon Works to be broken up, and the ‘Counties’ were no more.