Images Dated 2022

Laverton Halt in Gloucestershire, 1955

A view of locomotive number 5514 at Laverton Halt on the Stratford on Avon to Cheltenham line in Gloucestershire in July 1955. The image also shows the wooden platform and the pagoda shelter of this small station that opened in 1905 and closed in 1960

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1955, 5514, Gloucestershire, Halt, Laverton, Laverton Halt, Pagoda, Small Station, Station, Wooden Platform

No.9674 Composite Restaurant Carriage

This official elevation image shows composite diner carriage no.9674, with the first and third class saloons at opposite ends of the carriage. It was built in 1938 to diagram H57, and includes the GWR roundel in its livery

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1930s, 1938, 9674, Carriage, Composite Diner, Composite Restaurant, Diagram H57, H57, Restaurant Car

Drawing Office Cricket Team, 1934

This image shows the Cricket Team from the Drawing Office at Swindon Works. The dog being held at the front of the group was presumably the team mascot. Inter-company cricket matches in Swindon were played at both the GWR Park and the GWR sports ground on Shrivenham Road. (2nd right - George Ernest Langrish)

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