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Swindon Works Trip Gallery

Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items

Choose from 10 pictures in our Swindon Works Trip collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.

Family boarding a train in the carriage sidings at Swindon, for the annual Works trip

Swindon holiday makers at Weston Super Mare station 1960

New Swindon Mechanics Institution Trip ticket 1903

Families gather for the annual Swindon Works Trip, 1932

Featured Swindon Works Trip Image

Family boarding a train in the carriage sidings at Swindon, for the annual Works trip, 1932

Swindon Works closed down for two weeks every year, and the workers and their families went on a holiday known as the Trip. Complimentary trains ferried families to their destinations. In order to reduce any disruption to normal services, these trains were boarded from inside the Works or further down the line