Swindon!
View allAll Photos Tagged Swindon
During the melancholy day of the 'Western Tribute' Railtour celebrating the WR Class 52 diesel-hydraulics, BREL Swindon Workshops host D821 'Greyhound' and D1005 'Western Venturer' displayed off the works turntable.
As Grade II listed the turntable itself survives, although today in sorrowful state. Sadly however all of the workshop plant and yards beyond Rodbourne Road are lost to redevelopment.
D821 is a working exhibit on the Severn Valley Railway in the care of Diesel Traction Group.
26th February 1977
66023 on the approach to Swindon passing South Marston with 6C03 0955 Northolt Sidings to Severnside Sita binliner waste train. At least at this location the seemingly very over engineered catenary is not too much of an issue!
Source: Scan of an original photograph.
Image: P...
Date: unknown.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
Flame cut number from Warship class 824 propped up against the cab on Western Harrier. I picked this up off the floor to photograph against the cab and it was really heavy! Sept 75.
Source: Scan of a photograph.
Image: P30139.
Date: c1966.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
Source: Scan of an original photograph.
Set: ENS01.
Date: 1980s.
Photographer: © Mr J. Ensten.
Repository: From the collection of Mr J. Ensten.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
DB 60100 'Midland Railway Butterley' passes the former rail connected Bremhill fuel storage depot, on the outskirts of Swindon, with 6M53 15.55 Swindon-Toton steel empties on 18/05/21.
Small Prairie 5542 warming through at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway, 16th June 2010. More of 5542 at - davebowles.smugmug.com/Railways/Great-Western-Region/45XX...
Source: Scan of an original Edwardian postcard.
Set: MOO01.
Postmark: May 19th 1906.
Repository: private collection.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
Worcester Castle No. 7005 Sir Edward Elgar leaving on a Paddington - Cheltenham and Gloucester. 3 August 1962.
56113 T&T 56051 passes near Roughmoor on the approach to Swindon on 29/Sept/23 working 6Z59 09.31 Swindon Transfer to Swindon Transfer RHTT, routed via Gloucester/Newport S. Wales/Gloucester
818 `GLORY` ( D818) At Swindon on 11.12.1976. Had been repainted by Swindon employees . Was eventually repainted in green livery but unfortunately was scrapped in 1985.. © geeceesftotts
THIS ORIGINAL KODACHROME64 SLIDE IS FOR SALE ON EBAY.........35mmRAILWAY SLIDES
MECA Swindon. Opened as the Regent in September 1929, designed by W Sydney Trent, with 1,322 seats all on one (raked) level. Renamed Gaumont in 1953, and Odeon in 1963, before closing in favour of Top Rank Bingo in 1974, the game lasting through (under the Mecca brand) to 2008. After refurbishment, it reopened as M.E.C.A (Music Entertainment Cultural Arena) in 2010.
Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England - MECA, Regent Circus
/ Regent Road
September 2025
Forty years on and here's a nostalgic look back to events surrounding GWR150, a principal part the running of excursions behind steam locomotives.
At their birthplace of Swindon Railway Workshops are iconic exGWR express locos 6000 'King George V' (right) and 7029 'Clun Castle' each having arrived from Gloucester on one of the excursion days to be featured on that route.
A brace of BR Class 31 stand at the single road stabling shed, believed to have closed during 1987, a year following the closure of the BREL Works.
GWR200 coming next?
Commercial scan 35mm / Kodak Ektar100
28th August 1985
Class 03 204HP 0-6-0 diesel-mechanical shunter D2087 stands outside the eastern end of Swindon Works 'A' Shop, in June 1959. Recently completed, it has acquired the name of 'Teddy's Loco', whom I assume was a chargehand or someone of influence! It will soon be making its way to the paint shop to be given its BR green livery, followed by running-in trials. Entering service on 24th June, its first allocation involved hardly any travelling at all as it was to Swindon (82C). After 4 years it was transferred to Neath Court Sart (87A). It then started a wandering existence, to Llanelli (87F), Landore (87E), Taunton (83B), Ashford (73F) then back to Landore where it was stored and condemned in June 1971. It then lingered for another two years before being broken up by Messrs Pounds at Fratton TMD, a curious end.
The Norman Hirst Collection re-imaged. Copyright ©2022 by Keith Lewcock. Not to be used or reproduced without my prior permission..
On 13 May 1961 Britannia 70016 Ariel is stabled outside Swindon Works after a major overhaul. The loco was allocated to four different regions during its relatively short working life. When new it was allocated to Leeds Holbeck (55A) in June 1951, then to Stratford (30A) in March 1952, later to Cardiff Canton (86C) in December 1956 and ended up at Carlisle Kingmoor (12A) in October 1964, from where it was withdrawn in August 1967. Like so many of the Kingmoor Britannias, 70016 made its last journey to Scotland for scrapping. 70015-29 were allocated to the Western Region by the mid-1950's, all allocated to Cardiff Canton by early 1957. 70015/17/21 moved to the Midland Region in 1958 and the remainder did so en masse in September 1961.
Photo by David Nicholas
Thousands of ‘dancing’ Starlings swoop and swirl across the Swindon Skyline before roosting near the Swindon sewage treatment works at Barnfield.
The best free show in Town!
Having already passed through the station and reversed in Swindon East Yard, 59204 heads the 1135 Merehead - Wootton Bassett FY on the last leg of the journey.
Swindon Village playing field, Cheltenham. The sun on the trees and rain clouds behind. Just minutes after taking the photo the skies opened up in a torrential downpour, luckily I was back in the car..
© Mike Broome 2021
STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway is housed in a beautifully restored Grade II listed railway building in the heart of the former Swindon railway works. Located right next to Swindon's Designer Outlet, the Museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Railway. See famous locomotives, ‘drive’ our train simulator and even work the signals in our interactive GWR signal box!