Museum of the Great Western Railway
STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England – Wiltshire's 'railway town'. The 6,500-square-metre (70,000 sq ft) museum opened in 2000.
Brunel and North Star
King George V with Bristolian headboard
Ballast wagon
Platform scene
Swindon Works was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1843 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It served as the principal west England maintenance centre until closed in 1986.
King class locomotives under construction, 1928
D1015 Western Champion in A Shop
Watercolour of New Swindon in 1849, by Edward Snell
Preserved housing, originally built for the railway workers