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	SwindonWeb - Guide to Swindon - The GWR Works
		The Swindon Works were already well established as a crucial part of the GWR network, but they were set to expand still further in 1867 when the company decided to build its new carriage and wagon works at Swindon.
		Swindon's future as a major manufacturing and repair centre was assured for the rest of the century.
		Swindon Works were entering a new era with the appointment of George Jackson Churchward as Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent in 1902.
	www.swindonweb.com /guid/herirail1.htm (1309 words)

	A History of Swindon
		By 1881 the population of Swindon exceeded 15,000.
		Swindon was, of course, dominated by the railway works.
		Swindon was still very much a one-industry town in the late 1940's with more than half of the male workforce working for the railway.
	www.localhistories.org /swindon.html (1672 words)

	GWR
		Swindon was chosen to meet this need for a stop and here a maintenance depot and station could be built using the nearby canal to support the construction of both buildings.
		The town of New Swindon was to be built amongst the fields of Wiltshire.
		Working within the Works was known by the workforce as "inside".
	www.bevingtonfamily.freeserve.co.uk /gwr.html (535 words)

	Articles - Swindon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Swindon is a large town located in the South West of England, in the county of Wiltshire.
		Swindon is considered to be an almost exact microcosm of the whole United Kingdom in its demographic makeup, to the extent that it has often been used for market research purposes and trials of new products and services.
		Swindon has a large roundabout surrounded by several smaller roundabouts known as the "Magic Roundabout" (which became the subject of a song by the local band XTC).
	www.lastring.com /articles/Swindon (1593 words)

	SwindonWeb - Guide to Swindon - Swindon's Heritage
		Because of the importance of the works in the local economy, they always had to be mindful that events 'inside' affected the whole framework of life outside The Factory.
		He was the man who recommended Swindon as the site for Brunel's engine works and was therefore not only 'the father of Swindon Works' - a title he was proud of - but also the father of modern Swindon.
		A measure of the excellence that Armstrong brought Swindon works was that 40 of the engines he had designed before his death in 1877 were still running an incredible 68 years later.
	www.swindonweb.com /guid/heriking0.htm (800 words)

	BRM - forum view messages
		Swindon did indeed have areas where withdrawn rolling stock, coaces and wagons as well as locomotives, were stored pending breaking up, though as the works expanded around 1900 the exact location tended to change.
		From a modelling point of view, as Jim says, the works site was enormous and the dump was in a very open part of it, as I can testify from walking round it on several occasions during the 1960's, so it would be difficult to reproduce very easily.
		Other works did have similar storage areas for condemned rolling stock, but these too tended to be out of the way of the main works buildings, not least because space was often limited and no-one wanted it cluttered with scrap.
	www.brmodelling.com /forum/view.asp?postID=4270 (529 words)

	Swindon & Highworth Light Railway
		It was agreed that the GWR would work and maintain the line for 10 years in return for 60% of the receipts.
		Freight workings at the lower end of the line continued sporadically and there is a photograph showing class 08 diesel electric No. D4112 taking a single van from the Vickers works through Stratton station in 1964.
		Swindon has expanded greatly and the site of Stratton Station, depicted in open fields in our model, has now disappeared under modern light industry and is surrounded by 1930s housing estates.
	home.freeuk.net /highworth/history.htm (2877 words)

	Andy Williams railway photos - Shunting locos
		It didn't survive this incident, being withdrawn in June 1979 and cut-up at Swindon in 1980.
		In 1982 it was sent to Swindon Works to be overhauled and fitted with air-brakes, after which it was re-allocated to Haymarket.
		All three had recently been released from Swindon Works and arrived at Bescot as a special freight, the brake-van of which is still attached.
	www.bescot.plus.com /shunters.htm (2030 words)

	Swindon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Swindon was a small town until the coming of the railways.
		Swindon was also chosen as the junction of the Gloucester and Cheltenham line.
		As Swindon was eighty miles from London, it was considered a good place for changing locomotives, in readiness for the steeply graded section of line that followed on its western route.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ITswindon.htm (181 words)

	arms
		1899 Emily Elizabeth, known as Em, contribution to the Swindon family was that it was her that gave the stability to the entire family and especially to Alberts family she acted as a mother to Gordon and Peter, Alberts children as well as looking after her father John Albert.
		Howard Bevington was born in 1893 in New Swindon.
		He left Swindon in search of work after his apprentaship was completed and met and married Dorothy Hardwick in 1934 in Colliers Row, Romford, Essex.
	www.bevingtonfamily.freeserve.co.uk /sfamily.html (1754 words)

	Cholsey & Wallingford Railway on the Web
		Like 08022 the locomotive was moved to Swindon Works for disposal and was given a reprieve when it was sold to Guinness to shunt malt traffic at their Park Royal Brewery in West London, where it was named 'Unicorn'.
		Upon withdrawal the coach was sent to Wolverton Works in 1967 and converted to a CCE Staff and Dormitory coach working with track machine DR76308 at Newport and being renumbered in the departmental fleet as DW150392.
		B460765 was built under Lot.No.2352 Dia 1/019 at Ashford Works in 1953 and was one of 4,000 wagons built to this diagram at Ashford between the summer of 1951 and December 1955.
	www.cholsey-wallingford-railway.com /StockList.html (4987 words)

	Brunel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		So, naturally, the Swindon Works was built on the same mammoth scale.
		When Swindon people talked about working "inside", everyone knew they held a prized position within the Swindon Works.
		Staff at the Works lived in the Village - a small company town, designed by Brunel and built of yellow Cotswold stone, excavated during the boring of Box Tunnel (a few miles down the line).
	www.strum.co.uk /wessex/swindon3.htm (238 words)

	RED BRICK DREAM
		There are lots of references to the railway works, and the theme is the reliance of the town on a single industry and the suggestion that it has become complacent and set in its ways.
		Swindon is now a prosperous town because of the diversity of employment here.
		They are the houses built to house the railway workers during the massive and rapid increase in the population of the town as the railway works expanded.
	home.san.rr.com /roundabout/redbrick.htm (401 words)

	What to See - The Displays
		Stepping into the museum, visitors are taken into the world of the railway worker at Swindon, passing through a series of reconstructions, carefully assembled using original equipment, supported by video and interactive displays.
		At its height, the Swindon Works was producing three locomotives each week.
		To emphasise and celebrate the skill and achievement of the Swindon workforce, the final part of this display is the GWR express passenger locomotive, 'Caerphilly Castle'.
	www.steam-museum.org.uk /heritage/steam/steam-thedisplays.htm (793 words)

	Timeline 1958
		Electric working on the WCML is extended from Stafford to Nuneaton.
		Strenuous efforts are made to remove the blockage but the work proves too hazardous resulting in he closure of the tunnel completely.
		A local Swindon newspaper reports that up to 150 diesel locomotives may be withdrawn over the next eighteen months and moved to Swindon Works as an economy measure.
	www.railblue.com /timeline.htm (10610 words)

	Swindon & Highworth Light Railway
		The normal procedure was for one of the Swindon works shunters to operate the branch trains in between turns of moving rolling stock around various parts of the works.
		While Swindon records give the dates between which certain engines were allocated as shunters it is not known specifically when or how frequently these engines went down the branch.
		It is known to have worked the Highworth and Tetbury branches between 1923 and 1926.
	www.highworth.freeuk.com /stock.htm (1493 words)

	scrapyards, Derby, Glasgow, Swindon, Doncaster, BREL
		It was withdrawn from Gloucester in February 1977, still in green livery, and by the date of this view April 3rd 1977 - the locomotive has been reduced to the cab and frames and awaits movement to the scrapping area for the final coup-de-grace.
		Elsewhere in the works on January 13th 1980 were 08223 with 08155 & 08156 in the background - all withdrawn.
		Against the unmistakeable backdrop of brickwork that was Swindon Works 40119 heads a line-up of condemned locomotives, seen here on June 6th 1981.
	www.derbysulzers.com /scrapyard.html (3264 words)

	The Armstrong Family
		Whilst at Swindon he became interested in the local detachment of the Volunteers and became a lieutenant.
		Irving was the youngest son of Joseph and Sarah, and was born at Wolverhampton in 1862.
		Like his brothers, his schooldays were spent at Tettenhall College, and afterwards he entered the works at Swindon as an apprentice under William Dean, who was his father's successor.
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /Museum/Transport/Trains/Children.htm (1777 words)

	Rood Ashton Hall, Tyseley Locomotive Works, Vintage Trains, Birmingham Railway Museum
		It is also likely that 4965 had been taken on to Swindon for a classified repair and that some expensive work on the boiler had been found to be necessary.
		Over the last 2 years work has finally started on the engine in earnest, and it is during this period that detailed examination of the components has finally revealed the truth.
		This is a typical example of how industry really worked on the shop floor, people just getting on and doing the job efficiently, supervision that was empowered to do its job, and adjusting the paperwork to a form that satisfied the accountants and the powers that be after the event.
	www.vintagetrains.co.uk /tlw_4965_story.htm (1315 words)

	SwindonLink.co.uk
		The death of the broad gauge The image was taken in 1892 from next to the Bristol to London main line, close to what is now Penzance Drive.
		Dominating the picture are the lines of broad gauge locomotives waiting to be scrapped after the track guage on Brunel's Great Western Railway was abolished to be replaced by Stephenson's standard gauge of today.
		Swindon Works: Past & Present a new exhibition of fascinating historic photographs of the Swindon Works now on display at STEAM - the Museum of the Great Western Railway.
	www.swindonlink.com /news2002/01/rail_yard.html (308 words)

	George Jackson Churchward
		Preoccupied with locomotives to the end, he often pottered about Swindon during his retirement, and it was on one of these visits, in December 1933 that he was knocked by one of his own engines and killed.
		Practically the whole of the staff in the works contributed to the presenta tion, and he was presented with a fishing rod at a mass meeting in the Mechanics Institute.
		The Chairman of the Works Committee gave a very eulogistic account of how the men appreciated him as a Chief and wound up by hoping that every hair on his head would be a candle to light him to glory.
	www.steamindex.com /people/churchwd.htm (3834 words)

	Making the Modern World - The railway town: Swindon
		This led to the formation of large railway works and adjacent housing: the beginnings of a series of railway works and railway towns such as Crewe, Wolverton, Derby and Eastleigh.
		Built at a major junction of the railway, it was built outside and separate from the old town of Swindon which it eventually absorbed.
		Later in the 1860s iron rolling mills were established at the works and then a new type of skilled worker was required, resulting in an influx from Wales and its iron industry.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /learning_modules/history/04.TU.03?section=8 (416 words)

	Bluebell Railway Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In June 1972, 488 was being overhauled at Swindon Works.
		Another shot inside Swindon works comparing 488 driving wheels with those from a class 08 shunter.
		The H class and USA tanks are seen in the background along with the former engine works.
	home.cogeco.ca /~mtaylor6/mjt.htm (572 words)

	History of 6989
		We have reliable eyewitness evidence from Angus Brymer, who was a cleaner at Hereford when she arrived new ex- Swindon, that 6989 left Swindon Works liveried in lined brunswick green.
		Our conclusion is that she left Swindon Works in green, was repainted fl at the first or second heavy general and back to green at the fourth and last heavy general repair in March 61.
		We have a photograph of her on Swindon Shed in brunswick green that we believe was taken after the heavy general repair of 6 March 1961.
	www.wightwick-hall-6989.com /_wsn/page2.html (1275 words)

	SwindonEvent
		Photographs from the NMR illistrate the work of the important, but little know architect Henry Woodyer (1816-96).
		If a Swindon railway worker of a centuary ago was to visit the old works site today, he would hardly recognise the place - even though many original buildings survive, they are used for dramatically different purposes.
		Different styles, skills, in paint and on paper, figurative and abstract works from a Swindon based group united by a passion for fine art.
	www.swindonevent.com /exhibitions.htm (798 words)

	black & white Class 24 & 25, derby works, british railways
		Retired in working order it was used to tow three others down to Swindon Works, finally meeting its demise there in May 1981.
		During their construction parts of the Class 25's were treated with asbestos, a decade later treatment was necessary as the locomotives passed through the Works to have it removed.
		This was one of the earliest boiler equipped Scottish casualties, being withdrawn in October 1980 from Eastfield.
	www.derbysulzers.com /bw.html (3783 words)

	Archives
		New Work Orders 1932 – 1964 describe work undertaken by Swindon works in a variety of fields from machinery to civil engineering.
		Subject areas depicted include Swindon Works, both manufacturing and architectural views, locomotives and rolling stock, local and social history.
		Drawings and Plans: This is a miscellaneous collection, mostly related to Swindon Works and other GWR locations.
	www.steam-museum.org.uk /heritage/steam/steam-archiveintroduction.htm (700 words)

	Events in Swindon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The works, by local and national artists, cover a variety of topics from rural scenes to homes and portraits.
		Chaos, intrigue and deception are inevitable in Ray Cooney’s hilarious farce, as bigamist taxidriver John Smith tries to prevent his teenage son from one family meeting his daughter from the other, after they 'meet' on the internet....
		Swindon and Cricklade Railway, Tadpole Lane, Blunsdon, Swindon, Wiltshire.
	www.exhiswindon.co.uk /Events.htm (3476 words)

	Disposals Class 08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		D: (ADB966512) ADB968012 C: 04/79 BREL Doncaster Works
		D: (ADB966513) (ADB968013) ADB968010 C: 03/79 BREL Doncaster Works
		D: (ADB966511) ADB968011 C: 02/80 BREL Doncaster Works
	www.wnxx.com /disposals/08/08.htm (68 words)

	THE MEETING PLACE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Of course, other factories have hooters, but Swindon's hooter seemed to epitomise the authoritarianism of the GWR.
		The ticking of the clock, followed by the sound of the hooter, emphasises that it was one big communal alarm-clock.
		I have always thought that the man in the song worked in the Railways, whilst his girlfriend worked in a factory called "Comptons" (full name Compton Sons and Webb) which was situated right next to the railways - adjacent to the Carriage and Wagon Works.
	home.san.rr.com /roundabout/meeting.htm (268 words)

	Magicians in Wiltshire and across UK. Swindon. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If you are in Swindon then hire Rob James for your dinner, ball, banquet or party.
		Working primarily in the South West (Bristol-Bath area) Rob travels to South Wales, London, Birmingham and Bournemouth.
		Rob James works regularly as a magician in Swindon, Wiltshire.
	www.rob-james.com /magician-swindon-wiltshire.html (190 words)

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