Images Dated 2007 April

Swindon Town Station, c1960

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

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

Managers Houses (l-r, Marlow House and Station House) c1910

These manager's residences or villas were built to the north of Swindon Station. Similar houses had once stood adjacent to the Railway Village but were demolished in the 1870s

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Railway Village, Villa

Wartime ambulance carriage in No 19 (C) Shop, 1915

This image shows carriage No. 9024, an ex-invalid coach, suspended in the Carriage Lifting Shop at Swindon Works. The date is March 1915 and the carriage is being converted into a military ambulance train for service in the First World War. A red cross can be seen on the side of the vehicle and another cross would have been painted on the roof. It is also noted that the carriage is fitted with a Westinghouse brake system, in addition to a vacuum brake. This was an essential fitting and allowed the carriage to run over any railway in the country

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