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
Great Western Railway
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The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of
Swindon Works
…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. In 1835, Parliament approved…
The interior of Brunel's train-shed at Temple Meads, the first Bristol terminus of the GWR, from an engraving by J. C. Bourne
The Sonning Cutting in 1846
A broad-gauge train on mixed-gauge track
New corridor coaches on the Cornish Riviera Express