139 Items
Two little girls awaiting evacuation from Paddington Station, September 1939
A man and woman carrying out work on a steam hammer during WW2, 1942
Swindon Works War Work, 22nd January 1942
Workers riveting a locomotive boiler in V Boiler Shop c. 1942
Loading Churchill Tanks at Marlborough High Level Station, 1942
US 2-8-0 tender locomotive No. 1604 at Paddington Station, 1942
LMS coach no. 6204 converted to an ambulance train car, 1939
GWR station staff member in a gas mask, c. 1939
U.s locomotive No. 1604 at Swindon Works in December 1942
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
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
Evacuees at Paddington Station in 1939
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
Air Raid notice, issued to passengers in 1940
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
Motor landing craft under construction, 1942
Female Dining Car Attendant, about 1940
Damaged railway lamps, 1942
Coach No. 5189 in the Carriage Body Shop, 1946
Goods vehicle converted into an ambulance ward car, c. 1940
Iron Mink Wagon converted into a salvage van, c. 1940
War memorial at Paddington Station in 1949
Australian officers and sailors on a visit to Swindon Works, 1945
Australian Navy on locomotive No. 6021 King Richard II, 1945
Australian Navy visiting A Erecting Shop at Swindon Works, 1945
Unveiling of the World War 2 memorial at Paddington Station, 1949
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
SS St Julien at the Banana Dock in Dieppe c. 1939
Swindon Works employees welding superheaters for locomotive boilers, 1942
Swindon Works employees manouvering a wheel set by crane, c. 1940
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
Tanks being loaded onto Rectank flat wagons, c. 1940
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
Swindon Works Fire Brigade Dennis Fire Engine, 1942
Air raid shelter at West Ealing Goods Yard, 1940
Anti-aircraft platform at Swindon Station c. 1940
