A bit of preservation history has just disappeared at the Toddington base on the GWSR. The ‘Dowty Shed’. an increasingly decrepit and ageing remnant of the days when there was a preservation centre in Ashchurch, has been demolished to make room for a new diesel shed. Named after the Dowty Railway Preservation Society next to […]
There is a level of fascination, passion and unexplainable love that many people have for the old Great Western Railway. It is 62 years since the GWR was gobbled up to become a part of Bristish Railways and the various institutional permutations that followed it but the Great Western is still everywhere to be seen. […]