Author : Peter Timms
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445611201
A new study looking at the Swindon works in the transition period between the GWR and BR (Western) ownership.
Author : Rosa Matheson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0750968869
The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone – but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works iconic? Was it its worldwide reputation; perhaps its profound impact in shaping the new town of Swindon; or that it melded those who worked there into one big family? In a new and exciting format, this book, by popular railway historian Rosa Matheson, helps explain why the never-ending love story endures. With big facts and fascinating stories, it is a must read not only for ex-Works employees and their families, nor just for GWR fans and railway enthusiasts, but also for any newcomer seeking to find a good way into railway history.
Author : Peter Timms
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445642670
From 1841, when the Great Western Railway began building its works at Swindon, to 1986, when the works were closed, Swindon was a railway town
Author : Andy Binks
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445642719
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Swindon Works have changed and developed since the 1940s.
Author : Ron Bateman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0750995289
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 of the entire community it represented. Initially joining through the Works Training School in 1977, Ron witnessed this tragic struggle and the crushing blow dealt to the industry that had defined Swindon for generations. Combining personal recollections with information and interviews from many other insiders and railmen, this book provides the only comprehensive chronicle on the final decade of 147 years of railway engineering and a fateful milestone in the history of Swindon.
Author : L. A. Summers
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445616963
This book investigates the facts behind the myths and mysteries of the Swindon Steam.
Author : Alan S. Peck
Publisher : Oxford Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : L. A. Summers
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445634783
Railway sleuth Les Summers unravels the politics and policies that led to the abandonment of steam traction under British Railways. In this fascinating account, he examines the twilight of steam in the era that shaped the future of our railways.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1877
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