This is an expose of the role of two leading locomotive engineers - Collett and Hawksworth - who were responsible for GWR engine building policy following Churc

The GWR at Swindon is well known, as are its trained craftsmen, all over the world. It has been written about, filmed and lectured upon countless times, and man

A narrative history of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.

'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. When, in 1848, a p

In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measu