Links

 

The Great Western Society

Didcot Railway Centre
Didcot Railway Centre

Home of the Great Western Society - the Official Site

Heyford Station Building
Heyford Station Building

Reconstruction of the dismantled building

0-4-2T No 1466
0-4-2T No 1466

Restoring the locomotive the Great Western Society was set up to save (Facebook)

Non-Operational Locomotive Group
Non-Operational Locomotive Group

A group ensuring our static display locos are cared for (Facebook)

Carriage and Wagon - Progress reports
Carriage and Wagon - Progress reports

Latest progress by the C&W department (Facebook)

Didcot's Victorian Carriages
Didcot's Victorian Carriages

Restoring and conserving our earliest carriages (Facebook)

3822 Numberplate
Locomotives 3822 and 7202

The Didcot Heavy Freight locomotives

3650
Locomotive 3650

One of Didcot's two Pannier tank locomotives (Facebook)

1014
1014 County of Glamorgan

Recreating the Extinct County Class

47xx Project
47XX Project

Recreating Churchward's final masterpiece

2999 Lady of Legend
2999 Lady of Legend

The story of the now completed project to create the first new GWR ‘Saint’ Class 4-6-0 since 1913

Railmotor Logo
The Steam Railmotor Project

The story of the now completed project to restore Steam Railmotor No. 93 and Autotrailer No.92

 

 

Traditional Railway Signalling

Swindon Panel Society
Swindon Panel Society

Preserving the 1960s panel at Didcot Railway Centre

The Signalbox
The Signalbox

Information about British signalling practice

Signalling Record Society Logo
Signalling Record Society

Sources of British Signalling Information

Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers
Institution of Railway Signalling Engineers

The professional institution for those engaged in railway signalling & telecommunications

 

Great Western Railway History

Great Western Archive
The Great Western Archive

Extensive information on some GWR topics

West Country Railway Archives
West Country Railway Archives

Chris Osment's site for historical information on the railways of South-West England.

 

Standard Gauge Preserved GWR Lines

Bodmin and Wenford Railway
Bodmin & Wenford Railway

Bodmin Road - Boscarne Junction

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Gloucester/Warwickshire

Toddington - Cheltenham Racecourse

Llangollen Railway
Llangollen Railway

Llangollen - Carrog

Severn Valley Railway
Severn Valley Railway

Bridgnorth - Kidderminster

South Devon Railway
South Devon Railway

Buckfastleigh - Totnes (Littlehempston)

West Somerset Railway
West Somerset Railway

Minehead - Bishops Lydeard

Heritage Railways Association
The Heritage Railway Association

The voice of the railway heritage movement

UK Heritage Railways
UK and Ireland Heritage Railways

An independent guide to the entire heritage railway scene

 

Great Western Railway Museums

STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway
'STEAM'

Museum of the Great Western Railway - Swindon

STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway
Pendon Museum

A cavalcade of model Great Western trains in a beautifully modelled landscape

 

Sources of Archives and Old Photographs

National Archive
The National Archive

The National Archive at Kew

Network Rail Archive
Network Rail - Virtual Archive

Celebrating the heritage of today's railway infrastructure

Graces Guide
Grace's Guide

The engineering industry in Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the present