31-5-1983 KGV exiting Box Tunnel on a test run.
After an overhaul in the Swindon works the King George V loco was tested on the Bristol line. I pictured it exiting Box Tunnel.
31-5-1983 KGV exiting Box Tunnel on a test run. Read More »
After an overhaul in the Swindon works the King George V loco was tested on the Bristol line. I pictured it exiting Box Tunnel.
31-5-1983 KGV exiting Box Tunnel on a test run. Read More »
The Swindon painter, muralist, and Virgin’s Red Lady designer Ken White is at last given the prestige of and exhibition at the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery as a book of his work is published. Ken worked with Richard Branson on many Virgin projects including the Flying Red Lady which adorns the Virgin Atlantic aircraft,
Artist Ken White put in the picture with exhibition and book. Read More »
We have been celebrating 30 years with silence and monochrome memories. £30 years ago the Railworks shut, and the last shift departed and hooty stopped calling us to work. Just a small reminder of 26th March 1986: And the rather wet but colourful celebrations thirty years on.
A reflection on 30 years ago. Read More »
The first of the locomotives involved in the complex change over at Steam Museum was moved today. The 1934 built Railcar No.4 was pulled out of the museum and put on a low loader, ready for its journey to National Railway Museum in York. Gallery:
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Swindon’s Designer Outlet Village has just opened the new extention calling it The Long Shop after the building it is housed in. As part of the GWR Works the Long Shop was the Foundry and as such was one of the main supply lines to the works. Here is a gallery of the new Long
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Swindon Rail Works was closing and the workers put up a fight. This gallery is one of several that shows the change in the town’s employment structure. NOTE the placard in the station picture. How times have changed! Gallery:
Archive. Workers picket and protest to save Rail Works 29 6 85 Read More »