The Railway at War Gallery

The GWR during the First and Second World Wars

First World War
Railway War

Second World War
Railway War

First World War

Collection of 26 prints

Second World War

Collection of 134 prints

Bomb damage to Foxs Wood Tunnel, Bristol, 1941

USA S160 2-8-0 locomotive No. 1606 coupled to an ambulance train, 1942

Siphon G Wagon converted to ward car No. 3209 in 1943

Great Western Tender, No. W84, formerly No. 2641, 1941

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

Air Raid notice, issued to passengers in 1940

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

Naval guns at Swindon Works, alongside Star Class locomotive, no. 4013 Knight of St Patrick, c.1915

Female employees at Swindon Works making lamps, c.1940

SS St Julien as a hospital ship, at Newport Docks, c.1940

U.S. 0-6-0T shunting tank engine No. 1940 in its black War Department livery, 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

0-6-0 Dean Goods locomotives No s. 2479, 2576, 2425 and 2399 in the process of being scrapped, c.1949

2-8-0 locomotives under construction in AE shop, 1943

Dean Goods locomotive No. 2533 in War Department black livery

Evacuees at Paddington Station in 1939

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

Bomb damage to No. 24 shop at Swindon Works in 1942

Air raid damage to goods wagons at Newton Abbot Station in 1940

Signalman in operating signal levers during wartime, c.1940

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

0-6-0 tender locomotive Dean Goods No.2430 in wartime livery, c.1939

Leatherwork for howitzers and 8 pdr guns, made at Swindon Works, c.1915

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

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