Images Dated 2014 November

No 5 Shop, Train Lighting Shop, 1950

These men are working on the components used in the assembly of carriage lights. In the centre of the image, on the floor, is a domed light fitting either awaiting repair or construction

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1950, 1950s, Carriage Lighting, Carriage Works, Lights, No 5 Shop, Swindon Works, Workshop

No 12 shop, Carpenters Shop, 1934

An exterior view of the Carpenter's Shop. This workshop was situated adjacent to Station Road, next to one of the Works underpasses. The Carpenter's Shop also had its own subway allowing workers to avoid the complex array of railway tracks outside the building

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1930s, 1934, Carpenters Shop, Carriage Works, Swindon Works, Workshop