Company history
Following recent mergers the company was re-branded under the name of Churchward Logistics in honour of an ancestor of our Managing Director who tragically died over 75 years ago.
G J Churchward was the Chief mechanical engineer at Great Western Railways and won success and world-wide recognition with the 4-4-0 'City' class which soon became one of the most famous class locomotives in the world. One of them, City of Truro, became the first engine in the world to haul a train at 100 miles per hour in 1904 (although unauthenticated) and has the distinction of being the only real life mainline train featured in Thomas The Tank Engine stories.
Although G J Churchward had retired in 1922, he continued to live in a GWR-owned house near to the line at Swindon and he retained his interest in the company's affairs. On the 19th December 1933, now with poor eyesight and hard of hearing, he spotted a defectively-bedded sleeper on the line and walked over to check it and was tragically hit by a fast express train that killed him
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