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Great Western Stations A selection of my favourite Great Western Stations complete with histories, track plans and signalbox diagrams.

Great Western Locomotive Lot Numbers Locomotive lot numbers for Swindon and Wolverhampton works from 1855 to 1961 in Microsoft Excel Format

 

Swindon drawings of locomotives, coaches and wagons. Locomotive layout drawings Coach detail drawings Wagon detail drawings A selection of official Swindon drawings of locomotives, coaches and goods wagons.

Great Western Stock Codes A list of the stock codes for GWR rolling stock, where a gnat can be larger than a crocodile and snakes and pythons roam the countryside

Great Western Coaches A selection of preserved Great Western coaches and passenger vans.

Great Western Signal Boxes The Great Western Railway system used 1,943 signal and crossing boxes and ground frames to allow a safe passage of its services. With the GWR system divided into 15 sections, each section gives opening and closing times of each box, distances between boxes and maps

The GWR Railcars The Great Western railcars were a ground-breaking achievement for a company with its roots set firmly in the steam locomotive. All railcars are described through the original Park Royal bodied cars, the Gloucester built variants to the final Swindon built railcars.

The Story of Woodham Brothers at Barry The detailed story of the legendary Barry scrapyard with complete lists of all those locomotives saved, the order that the left the yard and those engines that were cut up

Back to basics A 17 part series describing the workings of a steam locomotive and each components function together with headlamp and signalbox bell codes. Redesigned for Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers

Preserved Steam Locomotives All preserved steam locomotives of British Railways and the 'Big Four'.

The History of the Great Western Railway From an Act of Parliament in 1835 to nationalisation 1948, the Great Western Railway, also known as "God's Wonderful Railway", was the envy of the other railway companies in Britain

GWR named locomotive database All named Great Western standard-gauge steam locomotives, including names that were replaced, are now given in this improved database

Western Region's diesel-hydraulic locomotives From five heavy underpowered prototypes to a fleet of modern powerful locomotives. The The Modernisation Plan of 1955 should have given Britain one of the most up-to-date railway systems in the world. That is until politics got in the way! The first engines used by the diesel-hydraulic locomotives were a fairly unreliable, but after a few years of painstaking work by both British Railways and the engine manufacturers, reliability became a key word . . . . . . . prior to all diesel-hydraulics being withdrawn.