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Railtrack office sign

Railtrack office sign

Great Western Railway splasher plate

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889
British Railway Board Standard Locomotives engineering drawings archive

British Railway Board Standard Locomotives engineering drawings archive

'Thomas The Tank Engine Fun Machine' extrusion toy

'Thomas The Tank Engine Fun Machine' extrusion toy

1996
Fire Engine, Great Western Railway

Fire Engine, Great Western Railway

1912
Swindon locomotive drawing register lots 173-215

Swindon locomotive drawing register lots 173-215

1907-1919
Cardboard box for "Thomas the Tank Engine fun machine" play stuff extrusion toy

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

1996
Train Splitter Lamp, Great Western Railway

Train Splitter Lamp, Great Western Railway

Test 64', punch operator's test

Test 64', punch operator's test

circa 1928
Geoffrey Tippett Collection - Swindon Works & GWR Locomotives

Geoffrey Tippett Collection - Swindon Works & GWR Locomotives

circa 1930
Suit made for Ed Freeman's Wedding

Suit made for Ed Freeman's Wedding

1991
Model of hut and garden made of modelling clay

Model of hut and garden made of modelling clay

1996
Tyre bending machine and combined drill by W. Affleck, Swindon

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

1853-1891
Photograph: Instruments - Tubon

Photograph: Instruments - Tubon

August 1965
Photograph of a boy playing an electric organ

Photograph of a boy playing an electric organ

23 August 1965
Dunking Head with Pressure, Temperature and Salinity Sensor, 1986

Dunking Head with Pressure, Temperature and Salinity Sensor, 1986

1986
Dunking Transducer Head, 1986

Dunking Transducer Head, 1986

1986
Control Rack For Radiographic Linear Accelerator

Control Rack For Radiographic Linear Accelerator

1967
Photograph: Muffling the Scream of The Jets

Photograph: Muffling the Scream of The Jets

October 1954
Component for a Ford Comuta electric car

Component for a Ford Comuta electric car

1967
Tender worksplate, Great Western Railway

Tender worksplate, Great Western Railway

1893
Diesel and Electric Train Locomotives - National Traction Plan

Diesel and Electric Train Locomotives - National Traction Plan

1965-02
Lithograph, 'Experimental welding' by Hubert Cook

Lithograph, 'Experimental welding' by Hubert Cook

1937
Lithograph, 'Hydraulic rivetting'

Lithograph, 'Hydraulic rivetting'

1937
Lithograph, 'A welder in a boiler shop' by Hubert Cook

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

1943
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
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

Lithograph, 'A welder in the Swindon Railway Works'

Lithograph, 'A welder in the Swindon Railway Works'

1938
Drawing, ink, 'Unloading at a railway siding' by Hubert Cook

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

1952
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
Lithograph, 'Plate shearers'

Lithograph, 'Plate shearers'

1957
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
Connecting rod and crankshaft assembly from Maybach diesel engine British Rail Engineering Ltd., Swindon.

Rod and crankshaft, from Maybach diesel engine

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
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

Lithograph, 'Iron foundry'

Lithograph, 'Iron foundry'

1943
Lithograph, 'Boiler shop

Lithograph, 'Boiler shop

1938
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
Cabside numberplate, Great Western Railway, "2920", from locomotive "Saint David", built September 1907, withdrawn October 1953.

2920 cabside numberplate from Saint David

1907
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

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

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

1939
Lithograph, 'Lifting a heat from the Boiler Shop furnace'

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

1939
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
Lithograph, 'The Iron Man'

Lithograph, 'The Iron Man'

1938
Lithograph, operative observing a press machine

Lithograph, operative observing a press machine

1938
Lithograph, with white and charcoal added

Lithograph, with white and charcoal added

1943
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

Approximately 170 boxes of material that documents the functions and activities of Swindon Works and the broader Great Western Railway, British Railways Western Region and British Rail Engineering Ltd. The collection includes corresponce files, rolling stock specifications, committee minutes, diesel locomotive shopping files, agreements and deeds, drawing registers, reports and research, quotes and estimates, and staff management. There is a significant volume of material from Swindon Drawing Office documenting the design of rolling stock.

Swindon Works Archive

1870-1980
Drawing, details of Great Western Railway 'King' class 4-6-0 locomotives, arrangement of cleating inside cylinders, Swindon, 1927.

Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 King class locomotives cleating inside cylinders drawing

1927