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A man and woman carrying out work on a steam hammer during WW2, 1942

War time work in Q Shop at Swindon Works, 1942

Swindon Works War Work, 22nd January 1942

Workers riveting a locomotive boiler in V Boiler Shop c. 1942

GWR station staff member in a gas mask, c. 1939

Female employees at Swindon Works making lamps, c. 1940

GWR lorry delivering paintings from the National Gallery to a slate mine in Wales in 1940

Evacuees at Paddington Station in 1939

Bomb damage to Bowden Hall locomotive at Keyham Station, 1941

Signalman in operating signal levers during wartime, c. 1940

Bomb damage to Paddington Station in 1941

GWR Wartime Emergency Headquarters in Berkshire, 1940

Air Raid damage to Paddington Station, 1941

Motor landing craft built by the GWR at Swindon Works, 1942

Matilda II tanks under construction at Swindon Work in 1941

Munition work at Swindon Works in 1918

Female Dining Car Attendant, about 1940

Female Clerks at Swindon Works, 1916

Female Refreshment Attendant, c. 1918

Carriage and Wagon Stamping (No. 18) Shop in 1915

Swindon Works Polishing Shop in 1914

Australian Navy on locomotive No. 6021 King Richard II, 1945

Australian Navy visiting A Erecting Shop at Swindon Works, 1945

World War 2 booklet It Can Now Be Revealed, published 1945

Women workers in the Permanent Way Dept at Reading, 1943

Women employee in the Road Motor Department at Slough, 1944

Swindon Works employees welding superheaters for locomotive boilers, 1942

Swindon Works employees manouvering a wheel set by crane, c. 1940

US soldiers embarking a ship in a GWR South Wales Dock, 1942

A Sea Hurricane being loaded onto an armed merchant ship at Cardiff docks, c. 1941

Railway carriage converted to an ambulance ward car, c1939

Evacuees waiting outside the departure platform at Paddington in 1939

The 13th Battalion Home Guard at a rifle shoot at Liddington, c. 1942

Swindon Home Guard manning an anti-aircraft gun platform, c. 1940

GWRs Home Guard battalions on parade at Castle Bar Park in London, c. 1940

Van loaded with waste paper from the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941

Standing down parade of 13th Battalion Home Guard, Swindon Works, 1944

Presentation of the Wiltshire Home Guard in 1944

A petrol trailer fire pump hauled by an ex-GWR Express Cartage van, 1940

GWR fire brigade at Paddington Station taking part in a drill, c. 1940

Air raid shelter at West Ealing Goods Yard, 1940

Wartime shells being packed up in 24F shop, ready for transportation in 1942

Tanks under construction in A Erecting Shop, Swindon Works. 1941

Shell production for World War 2 in 24F shop at Swindon Works, 1942

Female Ticket Inspector at Paddington Station in 1943

Staff at Gloucester Station 1944

Goods Yard, Cardiff Docks, 1943

Female Stationmaster, June 1941

Female wartime workers, 1943

The Goods Yard at Cardiff Docks in 1943

Norton Fitzwarren train crash, 1940

Norton Fitzwarren train crash in 1940

Production line for wartime shells in No. 24 Shop, Swindon Works, 1942

Servicemen drinking tea from a refreshment trolley on Paddington station, during WWII

Mobile emergency canteen at Paddington Station, during WWII

GWR Works Home Guard passing out parade, December 1944

GWR parcel van converted into an ambulance, 1940

Woman pasting a billboard poster at Paddington station, 1943

Female worker servicing a Thorncroft lorry at Slough Road Motor Department, 1944

Swindon Works War Work, 23rd January 1942

Women working on a locomotive boiler in Swindon Work during WW2

Retired staff returning to work at Didcot Station, 1917

V Shop, 1943

Female Clerks at Swindon Works, 1916

Female rivet hotter, A Shop, c. 1940

No 3 Company Swindon Battalion Home Guard, January 1941

Women porters working in the left luggage office at Paddington station, during WWII

Woman using steam press at Swindon Works, 1942

Locomotive driver in air raid kit, during WWII

Shunter in the wartime blackout, c. 1940

Swindon Works War Work, 26th June 1942

Female track maintenance workers during WW2

Female employees working in the Permanant Way Department during WW2

Women war workers making ammunition shells in 24F Shop, 1943

Female permanent way workers, c1940

Women workers at the Road Motor Department, Slough, March 1944

Women war workers stamping ammunition shells in B Shop, 1942

Swindon Works war work, 22nd January 1942

Female Ticket Collector at Paddington Station during WW2


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