Images Dated 2007

Swindon Works, 1908

View of Swindon Works looking towards the turntable and Erecting Shop

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Swindon, Turn Table

Swindon Town Station, c.1960

This station was originally on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway and was situated in Swindon's Old Town. Seen here with a BR Southern Region locomotive.
The station opened in 1881 and closed to passengers in 1961

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1960, Mindland And South Western Junction, Old Town, Southern, Station, Swindon, Wiltshire

The River Thames at Whitchurch, near Pangbourne, c1890

A view taken across the Mill Pond from the toll bridge in Whitchurch on Thames. Red brick cottages sit on the water's edge, next to the old mill, just out of shot to the left. The tower of St Mary's church can be seen in the centre of the image. This photo was produced by Photochrom and was used as a carriage print by the Great Western Railway in the late 1800s

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