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Water troughs for GWR


The wraps today come off a closely-guarded project that represents the culmination of two year’s behind-the-scenes work by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, the STEAM museum at Swindon and a new EC department that aims to develop railway heritage in Europe by offering grants for projects that ‘contribute towards railway heritage and education’.* This is to install a three-quarter-mile long water trough on the straight, level stretch of track at Gretton, between the tunnel and Gotherington. The troughs will be installed on track to be laid on the vacant formation alongside the present running line, so train services won’t be disturbed. Water will be supplied from a nearby spring via a water treatment facility. This stretch of line will then be doubled.