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In Tim Bryan's Great Western Swindon the reader was taken on a tour of both inside and outside the GWR workshops at Swindon, which dominated the hi...

For almost 150 years, the influence of the Great Western Railway's workshops in Swindon extended well beyond the great walls which surrounded most ...

Railway workshops began in the north of England as small engineering concerns building the engines that powered early railways such as the Stockton...

Britain’s towns and cities were famously transformed in the nineteenth century by the coming of the railways, which turned around their fortunes an...

With a network covering much of the West Country, Wales and the West Midlands, and a history and tradition stretching back more than a century, the...

The strategic importance of railways was recognized almost from the beginning of their development, but it was not until the end of the nineteenth ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats chan...

Have you ever watched wagon after wagon of a goods train thunder past and wondered where it is heading, what it is carrying, and how it works its w...

Railway stations were a prominent feature of most towns and villages in Britain until post-war modernisation and closures swept many away. The lar...

Evolving from the horse-drawn stage coaches that they soon eclipsed, railway carriages steadily grew in sophistication so that by the end of the ni...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel considered the Great Western Railway the ‘finest work in England’ and he contributed many groundbreaking features, none so ...