Day Return to Swindon

A few shots in and around STEAM Swindon where SVR locos 4930 Hagley Hall and GWR mogul 7325 are currently on display. As usual on this site, click on the images to open enlarged views. February 2005. Photos: Paul Bennett

On display in the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Swindon is the Valley's own 4930 Hagley Hall.

More TLC from the Friends. 4930 footplate glistening in the morning sun.

A view of the underside of 4073 looking forward. The very substantial cross-shaft connects the central shaft from the vacuum cylinder to the two outer brake rods. The RH brake adjuster is prominent. Squeezed between the 2 inside connecting rods are 2 sets of Walschaert valve gear. On the right, above the brake rigging is the vacuum pump, driven from the inside right cross head.

Good to many of the works building still standing although most are now retail stores. Running parallel with the mainline, this was the Iron Foundry.

And our very own 7325. Usually on display in the main part of the museum it had been moved temporarily to make way for the public launch of a new livery for the modern day Great Western

The loco is very well cared for by the STEAM Friends.

In the Museum itself is the very first Castle, 4073 Caerphilly Castle.

0-6-0 Dean goods, 2516.

Probably the most well known of all GWR engines, 6000 King George V.

7325. These wheels should one day be running under a Grange class loco.

The footplate of 7325. Again the care with which the museum Friends look after our locos is evident.