78 Items
First World War Collection26 Items
Second World War Collection137 Items
Air Raid notice, issued to passengers in 1940
SS St Julien as a hospital ship, at Newport Docks, c. 1940
Evacuees at Paddington Station in 1939
Macaw B railway wagon No. 84350 loaded with gun carriages at Swindon Works, c. 1915
8in. howitzer gun carriage on an Open B wagon at Swindon Works, c. 1914
Female employees at Swindon Works making lamps, c. 1940
U. S. 0-6-0T shunting tank engine No. 1940 in its black War Department livery, 1942
USA S160 2-8-0 locomotive No. 1606 coupled to an ambulance train, 1942
American S160 Class 2-8-0 locomotive No. 1609 upon arrival at Newport Docks, 1942
GWR lorry delivering paintings from the National Gallery to a slate mine in Wales in 1940
16 inch naval gun loaded on a set of four POLLEN E wagons, 1944
Great Western Tender, No. W84, formerly No. 2641, 1941
Dean Goods locomotive No. 2533 in War Department black livery
Bomb damage to No. 24 shop at Swindon Works in 1942
Mogul locomotive No. 8314 with bomb damage in 1941
Bomb damage to Bowden Hall locomotive at Keyham Station, 1941
Bomb damage to locomotives at Newton Abbot Station, 1940
Signalman in operating signal levers during wartime, c. 1940
Locomotive 4096, Highclere Castle with its wartime black out screen, c. 1940
Bomb Damage at Royal Oak near Paddington 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
No. 24F shop, Swindon Works, undergoing war time alterations in 1941
Leatherwork for howitzers and 8 pdr guns, made at Swindon Works, c. 1915
Naval guns at Swindon Works, alongside Star Class locomotive
6in. naval guns on display on Macaw B wagons at Swindon Works c. 1915
Naval guns outside A Shop, Swindon Works c. 1915
No 18 Stamping Shop at Swindon Works in 1915
Nordenfelt anti-aircraft gun in V Shop, Swindon Works c. 1915
Carriage and Wagon Stamping (No. 18) Shop in 1915
Swindon Works Polishing Shop in 1914
Carriage No. 4329 from US General Dwight D. Eisenhowers Alive train in 1942
Presentation of a War Savings League Cup to members at Swindon Works, 1944
US soldiers embarking a ship in a GWR South Wales Dock, 1942
American Flag flying from Paddington Station hotel on July 4th 1941
A 16 inch gun barrel loaded onto an eighteen wheel gun wagon in 1942
Brake Third coach No. 3307 converted into a mobile cleansing unit, 1941
Military tanks loaded onto Crocodile G wagons, c. 1939
Chevrolet Thornton military trucks lined up at Caerphilly Works, 1941
A Sea Hurricane being loaded onto an armed merchant ship at Cardiff docks, c. 1941
0-6-0 Dean Goods locomotives No s
Railway carriage converted to an ambulance ward car, c1939
A corridor brake composite carriage converted into a rail mobile emergency canteen, 1941
Siphon G Wagon converted to ward car No. 3209 in 1943
A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941
Bomb damage to the GWRs salvage warehouse in London, 1940
2-8-0 locomotives under construction in AE shop, 1943
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
Air raid damage to goods wagons at Newton Abbot Station in 1940
Saint Class locomotive, 2947 Madresfield Court with gun fire damage, c. 1940
Air raid damage to the gas holder at Swindon Works, 1942
Passengers at Paddington Station in 1943
Bomb damage to Foxs Wood Tunnel, Bristol, 1941
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
Anti-aircraft platform at Swindon Station c. 1940
Wartime shells being packed up in 24F shop, ready for transportation in 1942
Tanks under construction in A Erecting Shop, Swindon Works. 1941
0-6-0 tender locomotive Dean Goods No. 2430 in wartime livery, c. 1939
6in. naval guns on display on Macaw B wagons at Swindon Works, c. 1915
Norton Fitzwarren train crash, 1940
Norton Fitzwarren train crash in 1940
Production line for wartime shells in No. 24 Shop, Swindon Works, 1942
GWR Salvage Corps leaflet, 1940
Dean Goods locomotive No. 2533 in War Department livery, 1939
