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A Swindon Wordsmith
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‘A Swindon Wordsmith – the Life, Times and Works of George Ewart Hobbs’ has been written by local historians Noel Ponting and Graham Carter.

George Ewart Hobbs was born in 1883 and died i...More Information
Boat Trains
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The English Channel and Ocean liner specials. Written by Martyn Pring.
Children's Activity Book
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Features 14 fun-filled adventures for little ones to enjoy.
Didcot Engineman
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In recalling his railway career, Bernard Barlow has provided us all with a valuable insight into the life and work of a railway fireman based at Didcot engine shed during the 1940s and 50s. Apart from...More Information
Doing Time Inside
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Doing Time Inside chronicles the changes of the apprenticeship process from its earliest times during the Industrial Revolution; through the varied work of two world war periods; the changes of thinki...More Information
Great Western King Class 4-6-0
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Built by Collett in 1927 after pressure to restore the GWR’s pre-eminence in motive power and cope with increasing traffic post-war to the Devon and Cornwall holiday resorts, the thirty Kings were the...More Information
Great Western Locomotive Development
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The volume begins with a series of short essays covering general trends in design development, whilst the main body of the volume covers individual classes. For each class there is a small table conta...More Information
Great Western Manor Class
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In this book, author Laurence Waters charts the history of the class from their construction at Swindon in 1938, right through to the final withdrawals in 1965. Using many previously unpublished black...More Information
GWR Handbook, The Great Western Railway 1923-47
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For many the GWR was synonymous with holidays by the sea in the West Country, but it was built to serve as a fast railway line to London, especially for the merchants and financiers of Bristol. Its op...More Information
In and Around Swindon Works
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In and Around Swindon Works covers further aspects of the famous manufacturing centre of the Great Western Railway during its heyday of 1930 to 1960. This is the second half of a detailed work begun w...More Information
Life on the Railway
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A must for anyone interested in the history of the railways, industrial Britain and travel, this informative guide explores the lives of those on the railway. Train guards, station staff and passenger...More Information
Selected Poems by Alfred Williams
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Alfred Williams (1877-1930), dubbed ‘the hammerman poet’, was a self-taught Wiltshire genius, whose life was toil and poverty, but who deserves to live on and be remembered as a sensitive chronicler o...More Information
Swindon Engineman
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This book sets out to record Gordon Shurmer's footplate experiences, the turns he worked in each link and the running of Swindon shed. It is a collaborative effort, which has taken a number of years w...More Information
Swindon Steam
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In this book L. A. Summers investigates the facts behind the myths and mysteries using modern research and newly discovered information. What was life really like for railwaymen in the days of steam? ...More Information
The End of the Line The Last 10 Years at Swindon W
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In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to save Swindon Works, its 3,500 jobs and the livelihood o...More Information
The Fair Sex: Women and the GWR
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Using over 100 pictures, Swindon author Rosa Matheson traces the history of women and the GWR, from its beginnings in the 1870s when women were employed as sewers and netters at Swindon Works, throug...More Information
The Galloping Sausage and other Train Curiosities
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The formative years of Britain’s railway network produced a host of ideas, activities and characters, quite a few of which now seem not only highly unusual, but sometimes little short of ridiculous. W...More Information
The Great Western Steam Retreat
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In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on t...More Information
The Swindon to Gloucester Line
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The Swindon to Gloucester Line is a new edition of the classic authoritative account of the history of the railway line between Swindon and Cheltenham. More than 120 illustrations, accompanied by the ...More Information
The Swindon Trip
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'Trip', if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked 'inside' the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, was the event of the year. This book provides an evocative record of Trip for those w...More Information