Second World War Gallery

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

LMS coach no.6204 converted to an ambulance train car, 1939

Loading Churchill Tanks at Marlborough High Level Station, 1942

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

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

GWR parcel van converted into an ambulance, 1940

Woman pasting a billboard poster at Paddington station, 1943

Female Dining Car Attendant, about 1940

Female Stationmaster, June 1941

Female wartime workers, 1943

US 2-8-0 tender locomotive No. 1604 at Paddington Station, 1942

Goods vehicle converted into an ambulance ward car, c.1940

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

SS St Julien at the Banana Dock in Dieppe c.1939

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

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

Bomb damage to Foxs Wood Tunnel, Bristol, 1941

Signalman in operating signal levers during wartime, c.1940

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

Swindon Works Fire Brigade Dennis Fire Engine, 1942

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

Scammel being loaded with Anderson Air Raid Shelter, West London, 1939

Motor landing craft under construction, 1942

Paddington Station, c1940

GWR staff loading a stretcher into a parcel van which has been converted into an ambulance, 1940

Evacuees at Paddington Station, September 1939

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