Author: Laurence Waters

From the opening of the Great Western Railway in 1838 through to the end of steam traction on the Western Region in 1965 the engine shed formed an ...

This is a history of the railways of Oxford ,looking at the operations and development of services , from the opening of the Oxford Railway by the ...

It could be agued that the great Western or 'Gods' Wonderful Railway' was for many years the most famous railway in England. Much of the railway th...

Designed by G.J. Churchward, no. 40 was constructed at Swindon in April 1906. It was Swindons first 4 cylinder simple engine and was the forerunner...

Churchward's 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-se...