Presents a social and industrial study of the conditions faced by the many thousands of working men and women and their families whose lives were controlled by

From 1841, when the Great Western Railway began building its works at Swindon, to 1986, when the works were closed, Swindon was a railway town

A new study looking at the Swindon works in the transition period between the GWR and BR (Western) ownership.

An evocative collection of photographs covering the Western Region during a decade of great change. After the Second World War, Britain’s railways were rundow

The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone – but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works iconic? Was