The Great Western Railway at Swindon, with its highly skilled craftsmen, is world-famous. Retired GWR railwayman Ken Gibbs seeks to redress the balance... Læs mere
The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new age of iron, steel and steam, literally, gathered pace.
Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages across the South West to the new branch lines.