Swindon Works
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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
Wolverhampton railway works
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Wolverhampton railway works was in the city of Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire, England. It was almost due north of the city centre, and is commemorated with a small display of level crossing gates and a plaque. Known as the Stafford Road Works, it was opened by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849 to maintain bought-in locomotives.
GWR "Castle Class" 4-6-0 5050 "Earl of St Germans" at Wolverhampton (Stafford Road) motive power depot in December 1958.
The site of the former Wolverhampton (Stafford Road) TMD in 2007, redeveloped in the late 1960s as a light industrial estate