Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

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

Fire Engine, Great Western Railway

1912

Lithograph, with white and charcoal added

1943

Lithograph, 'A welder in the Swindon Railway Works'

1938

Lithograph, 'Plate shearers'

1957

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

1982

Model of hut and garden made of modelling clay

1996

Dunking Transducer Head, 1986

1986

Diesel and Electric Train Locomotives - National Traction Plan

1965-02

'Thomas The Tank Engine Fun Machine' extrusion toy

1996

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

1996

Test 64', punch operator's test

circa 1928

Component for a Ford Comuta electric car

1967

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

1853-1891

Tender worksplate, Great Western Railway

1893

Swindon locomotive drawing register lots 173-215

1907-1919

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

Dunking Head with Pressure, Temperature and Salinity Sensor, 1986

1986

Geoffrey Tippett Collection - Swindon Works & GWR Locomotives

circa 1930

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cast iron, oval, standard 2-10-0 Class 9F 92220 "Evening Star", built March 1960, last steam locomotive made for BR, withdrawn March 1965, restored & repainted for preservation at Crewe Works.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cast iron, oval, standard 2-10-0 Class 9F 92220 "Evening Star", built March 1960, last steam locomotive built for BR, withdrawn March 1965, restored & repainted for preservation at Crewe Works.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Engineering drawing, details of Great Western Railway 'King' class 4-6-0 locomotives, arrangement of supporting brackets and handrail pillars for four-cone ejector, Swindon, 1927.

Drawing of supporting brackets and handrail pillars for four-cone ejector for Great Western Railway Class 6000 King locomotives

1927

Receiver from radio paging "bleep" 9500, by Blick International Systems Ltd., Techno Trading Estate, Bramble Road, Swindon, Wiltshire, English, 1980

Receiver from radio paging "bleep" 9500

1980

Collection of Great Western Railway Civil Engineering and Architectural drawings, recovered from British Rail Engineering Ltd. Swindon

Great Western Railway Civil Engineering and Architectural Drawings

'Betrayal', artwork, on canvas, made by Ed Freeman for the Thalidomide Health Grant Campaign, exhibited in all four United Kingdom Parliaments, 2012-2013

'Betrayal'

2012-2013

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"

Commemorative worksplate, British Railways (Western Region), From "Evening Star":- "No 92220 Built at Swindon March 1960. The last steam locomotive for British Railways. Named at Swindon on March 18th 1960 by KWG Grand Esq. Member of the British Transport Commission"

Commemorative worksplate

1960