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  • Collection: Angove Collection

TRANS 8.065if.tif
Fitted with Betpaire Boiler & Firebox in 1914. Served in 1914-18 & 39-45 wars

PEOP 8.026.tif
Devon-born George Jackson Churchyard, Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, started with South Devon Railway in 1896, retired 1921 and was killed on the line at Swindon in 1933. He was a designer of engines and boilers.

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PEOP 8.027.tif
George Jackson Churchward. Born at Stoke Gabriel near Totnes in 1957, died on 19th December 1933 when struck by a South Wales express train near his Swindon home. He was apprentice engineer to the South Devon railway from Totnes Grammar School. When…

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TRANS 8.066.tif
Photo before Loco scrapped in 60s. Nameplate in BT Museum York

TRANS 4.094.tif
Locos 3252-3291 used in Cornwall from 1895-1940

TRANS 8.068.tif
This Engine started as Broadgauge 0:4:2 became 4:4:0 in 1902 Scrapped in 1927

ARTS 6.007.tif
Stephen Drage with his painting of 'Great Western' emerging from Sapperton Tunnel.

TRANS 8.071.tif
Travelling Post Office showing Catching Gear. Mr Leatherby 3rd rightwas Asst Head Postmaster Plymouth until 1934 PREVREF 1247 duplicate of this photo
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