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Railtrack office sign

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Drawing, ink, 'Unloading at a railway siding' by Hubert Cook

1952

Control Rack For Radiographic Linear Accelerator

1967

British Railway Board Standard Locomotives engineering drawings archive

Dunking Transducer Head, 1986

1986

Model of hut and garden made of modelling clay

1996

Lithograph, with white and charcoal added

1943

Lithograph, 'A welder in the Swindon Railway Works'

1938

Lithograph, 'Plate shearers'

1957

Fire Engine, Great Western Railway

1912

The North Express (Southampton to Midlands and North-West) in Burdcrop woods

1982

Photograph of a boy playing an electric organ

23 August 1965

Photograph: Muffling the Scream of The Jets

October 1954

Photograph: Instruments - Tubon

August 1965

Geoffrey Tippett Collection - Swindon Works & GWR Locomotives

circa 1930

Test 64', punch operator's test

circa 1928

'Thomas The Tank Engine Fun Machine' extrusion toy

1996

Cardboard box for "Thomas the Tank Engine fun machine" play stuff extrusion toy

1996

Tender worksplate, Great Western Railway

1893

Dunking Head with Pressure, Temperature and Salinity Sensor, 1986

1986

Tyre bending machine and combined drill by W. Affleck, Swindon

1853-1891

Component for a Ford Comuta electric car

1967

Lithograph, 'A welder in a boiler shop' by Hubert Cook

1943

Lithograph, 'Iron foundry'

1943

Lithograph, 'Hydraulic rivetting'

1937

Lithograph, 'Boiler shop

1938

Lithograph, 'Experimental welding' by Hubert Cook

1937

Lithograph, 'Sawing white hot metal: Swindon Rolling Mills'

1939

Lithograph, 'The Iron Man'

1938

Lithograph, 'Lifting a heat from the Boiler Shop furnace'

1939

Lithograph, operative observing a press machine

1938

Diesel and Electric Train Locomotives - National Traction Plan

1965-02

Swindon locomotive drawing register lots 173-215

1907-1919
Cabside numberplate, Great Western Railway, "2920", from locomotive "Saint David", built September 1907, withdrawn October 1953.

2920 cabside numberplate from Saint David

1907
Royal coat of arms, cast iron, painted black, ex Great Western Railway Swindon Works (Swindon List no. 36).

Royal coat of arms, Great Western Railway

Door panel, padded maroon leather, ex Broad Gauge Royal Saloon by W Harvie, Foreman, Great Western Railway Swindon Carriage Department 1871.

Broad Gauge Royal Saloon door panel, 1871

1871
Cream leather door panel from Broad Gauge Royal Saloon designed by W Harvie Foreman at Great Western Railway Carriage Department, Swindon, 1871. Overall: 780 mm x 837 mm x 50 mm.

Door panel from Royal Saloon

1871
Wagon solebar plate, from 24 ton well wagon No. DB550019, built Swindon 1984 (Lot No. 4040) and used in 'Operation Smash Hit' testing of 'Magnox' spent nuclear fuel flask, Old Dalby, Leicestershire, 17th July 1984.

Wagon solebar plate

1984
One wooden artificial foot, metal hinge at ankle, part of a set of four artificial limbs manufactured by the Great Western Railway, Swindon works, for injured railway personal, recovered from British Rail Engineering Ltd. Swindon.

One wooden artificial foot

Locomotive Worksplate, British Railways, "built 1960 Swindon", cast iron, oval, standard 2-10-0 Class 9F 92220 "Evening Star", built March 1960, last steam locomotive made for BR, withdrawn March 1965, restored & repainted for preservation at Crewe Works.

Locomotive worksplate

1960
Connecting rod and crankshaft assembly from Maybach diesel engine British Rail Engineering Ltd., Swindon.

Rod and crankshaft, from Maybach diesel engine

Locomotive Worksplate, British Railways, "built 1960 Swindon", cast iron, oval, standard 2-10-0 Class 9F 92220 "Evening Star", built March 1960, last steam locomotive built for BR, withdrawn March 1965, restored & repainted for preservation at Crewe Works.

Locomotive worksplate

1960
Locomotive Worksplate, British Railways, "built 1960 Swindon", cast iron, oval, standard 2-10-0 Class 9F 92220 "Evening Star", built March 1960, last steam locomotive built for BR, withdrawn March 1965, restored & repainted for preservation at Crewe Works.

Locomotive worksplate

1960
Locomotive plaque, Great Western Railway, "Broad gauge engine, Sultan, built at Swindon 1847, new boiler 1876, total mileage to conversion of gauge May 92 1,488,190".

Locomotive plaque

Locomotive Worksplate, British Railways, "built 1960 Swindon", cast iron, oval, standard 2-10-0 Class 9F 92220 "Evening Star", built March 1960, last steam locomotive built for BR, withdrawn March 1965, restored & repainted for preservation at Crewe Works.

Locomotive worksplate

1960
Model railway carriage body, approx. 1:24 scale, wooden painting style scheme for BR MkII carriages, BR (WR) and BR (LMR), ex Swindon Works.

Wooden model railway carriage body, British Railways - ex Swindon Works

Nameplate, Great Western Railway, "Sir Watkin", from GWR "Bulldog" class 4-4-0 locomotive recovered from British Rail Engineering Ltd, Swindon.

Nameplate, Great Western Railway - "Sir Watkin"

Carriage & Wagon Works; footplate, knocker-up, cleaner; fireman; guard; traffic, cars; banking locomotives; trade unions; carriage and wagon works, Swindon Shop 21A, building wagons; Second World War; flat wagons; parts supplied from USA; footplate work; cleaning, knocking-up; fireman (Cirencester); Swindon depot; pilot, transfer duties; Swindon depot; pilot transfer duties; relief and control link; Paddington trains; castle class locomotives; incident, safety valve cover; Reading Station; driving; speed; marriage problems; work-related injury (dermatitis); porter-shunter; ballast train working; motor car trains; banking locomotives (Brimscombe); incidents, train breakaways, coupling failures; work-related health problems; retirement; goods wagon incident; royal train working; trade union membership, ASLEF, AEU, NUR; d.o.b. 1927-07-04. railway work 1939-1992. Swindon; Cirencester; Paddington.

Warren, Jack

2000-07-24
apprentice moulder; foundry; trade union; foreman; family; machine shop, Swindon Works; apprentice moulder, iron foundry; brass foundry; foundry ventilation, heating; end of steam era, introduction of aluminium; electric furnaces, machine moulding; foundry sands; new techniques; trade union activities; improvements in ventilation; accidents; prehistoric creature found beneath floor; promotion, foreman, supervising fifty men; d.o.b. 1922-07-16, railway work 1937-1984, Swindon Works;

Fleetwood, John Edward

2000-09-19