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A new study looking at the Swindon works in the transition period between the GWR and BR (Western) ownership.

From 1841, when the Great Western Railway began building its works at Swindon, to 1986, when the works were closed, Swindon was a railway town

The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone – but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works iconic? Was

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Swindon Works have changed and developed since the 1940s.

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to save Swindon Wo