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Swindon And Cheltenham Extension Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![This is the Thumper Unit which was badly damaged in a fire at Blunsdon. The non-power car has been destroyed but the power unit is repairable. [See image 36382] for a view of the unit in happier times.<br><br>[Peter Todd //]](/images/55000/55331.jpg "Blunsdon")
![As has been reported in the Railway Media, there was an arson attack on the Swindon and Cricklade's Thumper Unit.<br><br>
<br><br>
It is now being stripped of any remaining good parts before being scrapped.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/06/]](/images/55000/55561.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Smart looking 0-4-0ST <I>Merlin</I> operating on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway in July 1990. <br><br>[Peter Todd 29/07/1990]](/images/27000/27055.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Blunsdon station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway, viewed from the south in July 1998.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/07/1998]](/images/34000/34451.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Platform scene at Blunsdon in July 1998, looking towards Swindon.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/07/1998]](/images/50000/50631.jpg "Blunsdon")
![7903 <I>Foremarke Hall</I>, 'running-in' on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway near Blunsdon in September 2003.<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/09/2003]](/images/43000/43337.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Scene on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 21 November 2007 as Barclay 0-6-0ST 2139 of 1942 <I>Salmon</I> undergoes some test running following a major overhall.<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/11/2007]](/images/18000/18067.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Preserved electro-diesel E6003 <I>Sir Herbert Walker</I> operating on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 14 June 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/06/2008]](/images/19000/19447.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 14 June 2008 with preserverd electro-diesel E6003 at the platform. The locomotive was withdrawn by BR as 73003 in September 1993.<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/06/2008]](/images/19000/19462.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Trackbed running towards the site of the proposed new station at Mouldon Hill on the southern extension of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway.<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/07/2008]](/images/19000/19910.jpg "Mouldon Hill")
![Plenty of ballast still apparent on the trackbed earmarked for the extension of the Swindon and Cricklade Railway and the creation of a new station at Mouldon Hill. Photographed on 20 July 2008. <br><br>[Peter Todd 20/07/2008]](/images/19000/19921.jpg "Mouldon Hill")
![Slough Estates No 3 departing from Haynes Knoll on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 20 September.<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/09/2008]](/images/21000/21058.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![TASC 45 self propelled engineering vehicle used primarily for PW operations on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/10/2008]](/images/20000/20955.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Paint job required, guards van at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway, October 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/10/2008]](/images/21000/21002.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Fowler diesel mechanical 4210137 of 1958 on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 22 November 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/11/2008]](/images/21000/21563.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![A class 207 <I>Thumper</I> DEMU repainted back into its original colours and with its old BR number stands at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 22 November.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/11/2008]](/images/21000/21569.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Interior shot of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway shed at Hayes Knoll on 29 November. Engines seen are Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Salmon</I> and Hunslet 0-6-0ST <I>Gunby</I>, the latter being the precursor to the Austerity class J94, with the original design having been modified by Riddles for wartime use.<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/11/2008]](/images/21000/21629.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Slough Estates No 3, a Hudswell-Clarke 0-6-0ST No 1544 from 1928, masquerading as one of Santa's reindeers at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 29 November!<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/11/2008]](/images/21000/21637.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The Swindon & Cricklade Railway's restored Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Salmon</I> in action on 6 December 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 06/12/2008]](/images/21000/21696.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The Swindon & Cricklade Railway's southern extension to Moldon Hill, seen on 31 January 2009. With major obstacles concerning badgers and newts now resolved the new section of the line should be open to traffic in 2011.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 31/01/2009]](/images/22000/22349.jpg "Moldon Hill")
![The Swindon and Cricklade Railway's Class 207 <I>Thumper</I> DEMU 1302, newly painted in Southern Region green. Photographed at Haye's Knoll on Saturday 28 February 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/02/2009]](/images/22000/22727.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Newly painted Swindon and Cricklade Railway preserved class 207 DEMU no 1302 photographed at Hayes Knoll on 28 February 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/02/2009]](/images/22000/22884.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![D9521 borrowed from the Dean Forest for a diesel gala on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 10 October 2009.<br><br>[Peter Todd 10/10/2009]](/images/25000/25838.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![D3668 awaiting main generator repairs at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 10 October 2009.<br><br>[Peter Todd 10/10/2009]](/images/25000/25860.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![View South West along the trackbed of former Midland & South West Junction route towards Cirencester, seen from alongside the former level crossing over the A429 Fosse Way.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 17/04/2010]](/images/28000/28602.jpg "Foss Cross")
![BR class 03 no D2022 is yard shunter at Hayes Knoll during the Swindon and Cricklade Railway's Industrial Locomotive Gala day on 1 May. <br><br>[Peter Todd 01/05/2010]](/images/28000/28806.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Fowler Diesel Mechanical locomotive no 4210137, heading a local freight during the Swindon and Cricklade Railway Gala Day on 1 May 2010.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/05/2010]](/images/28000/28835.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The day's duty passenger engine <I>Salmon</I> [Barclay 0-6-0ST 2139 of 1942] in action at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway Industrial Locomotive Gala day on 1 May 2010. <br><br>[Peter Todd 02/05/2010]](/images/28000/28763.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The tamper brought in to fettle the ballast on the southern Mouldon Hill Extension of the Swindon and Cricklade Railway, photographed at Blunsdon on 15 May 2010. After three passes, apparently the track can handle 70mph trains. We are now able to run over an extra 3/4 mile of new track. <br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/05/2010]](/images/28000/28958.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Swordfish</I> (works no 2138 of 1942) photographed at Blunsdon on 15 May. Named after HMS Swordfish, the locomotive is not normally seen on a Saturday as the owners and restorers tend to keep it under wraps.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/05/2010]](/images/28000/28982.jpg "Blunsdon")
![RSS Tamper 73315 stands at Blunsdon on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 15 May 2010 having been brought in to fettle ballast on the Mouldon Hill extension.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/05/2010]](/images/29000/29005.jpg "Blunsdon")
![In the shed yard at Blunsdon on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 11 June 2010 is GWR 2-6-0 no 5322, in wartime ROD khaki livery. [5322 was completed in October 1917 and sent new to France to haul supply trains between Calais and various railheads serving the front line.]<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2010]](/images/29000/29328.jpg "Blunsdon")
![First movements down the new southern extension to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 11 June 2010. The locomotive is ex-GWR 2-6-2T no 5542 working with GWR Autocoach 178. After twenty five years, a very pleasing experience!<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2010]](/images/29000/29338.jpg "Mouldon Hill Extension")
![5542 with Autocoach 178 on the Mouldon Hill Extension during the Swindon and Cricklade Railway Gala day on 11 June 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2010]](/images/29000/29382.jpg "Mouldon Hill Extension")
![3717 en route to Mouldon Hill on the newly extended line of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway during a gala day on 12 June 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2010]](/images/29000/29349.jpg "Mouldon Hill Extension")
![5322 and 3717 stand together on Hayes Knoll shed during light up on 12 June 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2010]](/images/29000/29359.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![5322 in ROD wartime khaki livery with a train on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway's Mouldon Hill Extension on 12 June 2010 en route to Hayes Knoll<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2010]](/images/29000/29364.jpg "Mouldon Hill Extension")
![4612 with a train on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway's Mouldon Hill Extension on 12 June 2010.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2010]](/images/29000/29415.jpg "Mouldon Hill Extension")
![Recently overhauled Fowler 0-6-0DH <I>Blunsdon</I> at Hayes Knoll on 19 June 2010, standing alongside a traditional steam shed wheelbarrow arrangement.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29445.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![4612 manoeuvering at Hayes Knoll shed on 19 June during a Swindon & Cricklade Railway Gala day.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29452.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![<I>Woodbine</I>, a pre-war Fowler 0-4-0DM from the Swindon tobacco factory of of W.D. & H. O. Wills, which came to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway around 1980. Photographed at Hayes Knoll on 19 June 2010.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/06/2010]](/images/29000/29463.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Scene on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway near Hayes Knoll on 18 December with Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Salmon</I> heading through the snow with a <I>Santa Special</I>.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/12/2010]](/images/31000/31987.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Scene on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 18 December looking towards Hayes Knoll station.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/12/2010]](/images/32000/32022.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Swindon and Cricklade Railway's two Fowler shunters on PW work on 22 February 2011.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/02/2011]](/images/32000/32897.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![D3261 is a 1956 built BR Class 08, rescued from the Brighton Pullman sheds in 1996 and now virtually restored to full working order. Seen here doing a bit of shunting on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway in May 2011 .<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd /05/2011]](/images/34000/34043.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Originally built in 1959 as a class 08 locomotive, Swindon and Cricklade Railway no D3668 is actually now a class 09. Working history unknown but soon to undergo repairs to its traction motors and generator.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd /05/2011]](/images/34000/34056.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Pannier tank no 3650 being prepared for a day's work at Hayes Knoll depot on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 24 July 2011. The locomotive is currently on loan from the Great Western Society at Didcot.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/07/2011]](/images/34000/34999.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Head on view of Pannier tank no 3650 receiving attention at Hayes Knoll depot on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 24 July 2011 [see image 34999].<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/07/2011]](/images/35000/35012.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Preserved <I>'Thumper'</I> DEMU no 1302 approaching Blunsdon Station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 12 November 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/11/2011]](/images/36000/36382.jpg "Blunsdon")
![A scrapyard!!! The rusting hulk is Hunslet 50550 Class 0-6-0ST, 2411 of 1941, precursor to the J94's. For all its poor looks the locomotive is in good condition, the chassis and boiler are in good order with all fittings present. It just needs a touch of paint!<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/11/2011]](/images/36000/36389.jpg "Blunsdon")
![D3261 has now started working on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway after a fairly long restoration period. Built by BR in 1956, sold to the NCB in 1972, condemmed by the NCB in 1988 and sold on to the Brighton Museum Project. This was a failed project and the 08 eventually came to the S&CR in 1998. The locomotive is seen with a northbound train on 9 June crossing the River Ray on the approach to Blunsdon Station.<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/06/2012]](/images/39000/39149.jpg "Blunsdon")
![GWR Prairie tank no 5521 is visiting the Swindon and Cricklade Railway for two months. Here it is at Hayes Knoll on its first and very rainy day's work on 14 July 2012. (This is the engine that has spent time in Poland and other exotic locations.)<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/07/2012]](/images/39000/39720.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![GWR 2-6-2T no 5521 with a train at Hayes Knoll on 14 July 2012 [see image 39720].<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/07/2012]](/images/39000/39770.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![After a fair few trials and tribulations, the Swindon & Cricklade Railway finally opened their temporary terminus, known as Taw Valley Halt, on the north west outskirts of Swindon. GWR 5521 is seen at work on clearance and safety checks at Taw Valley Halt before the first passenger trains.<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/08/2012]](/images/40000/40087.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Salmon</I> on the southern extension to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway approaching Blunsdon Station on 27 October. Following the opening of the SCR's Taw Valley Halt, the loco's can now run round their trains.<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/10/2012]](/images/40000/40822.jpg "Blunsdon")
![BR Class 73, E6003 <I>Sir Herbert Walker</I>, departing southbound from Blunsdon on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 20 April 2013. The train is heading for Taw Valley Halt with the token about to be collected.<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42788.jpg "Blunsdon")
![The new station at Taw Valley Halt on the Swindon And Cricklade Railway on 20 April 2013. The grand opening ceremony is planned for June.<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/04/2013]](/images/42000/42796.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![GWR Hall 4-6-0 no 6984 <I>Owsden Hall</I> has arrived on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway for final assembly into a working locomotive (see previous news item). Most of it is seen here at Blunsdon on 17 July.<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/07/2013]](/images/43000/43821.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Rear end of GWR Hall 4-6-0 no 6984 <I>Owsden Hall</I> seen on 17 July in the sidings at Blunsdon on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway. [See image 43821]<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/07/2013]](/images/43000/43838.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Class 09 D3668 in the shed yard at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 15 March 2014.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46657.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Class 73/0 E6003 <I>Sir Herbert Walker</I> running around its train at Hayes Knoll on 15 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46666.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Metropolitan Railway E Class 0-4-4T No.1 inside the shed at Hayes Knoll on 15 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46685.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Scene in the shed yard at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 15 March 2014. Class 09 D3668 (left) stands alongside class 08 D3261.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46704.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![BR Class 73 electro-diesel no E6003 <I>Sir Herbert Walker</I> running round at Blunsdon on 15 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46713.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Class 08 D3261 standing in the shed yard at Hayes Knoll on 15 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2014]](/images/46000/46780.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The Swindon & Cricklade Railway's Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Salmon</I> will soon be on its way to the Royal Deeside Railway. The locomotive is seen here preparing to leave Taw Valley Halt on 23 March 2014. [See image 47203]<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/03/2014]](/images/46000/46748.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST <I>Salmon</I> shortly after taking a train away from Taw Valley Halt on The Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 23 March 2014. [see image 46748]<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/03/2014]](/images/46000/46789.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![The NRM's Metropolitan No 1 is spending a short time on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway. The 0-4-4 tank was photographed alongside Hayes Knoll signal box on 19 April 2014 carrying the headboard of <I>The Easter Egg-spress.</I> Enough said.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47049.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Metropolitan 0-4-4T No 1 with a train on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 19 April 2014.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47082.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Metropolitan No 1 in action on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway in April 2014.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47265.jpg "Blunsdon")
![The NRM's Metropolitan No 1 with a train at Hayes Knoll on 19 April.<br><br>[Peter Todd 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47372.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Metropolitan No 1 with a Swindon and Cricklade Railway special near Blunsdon on 19 April. <br><br>[Peter Todd 19/04/2014]](/images/47000/47414.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Metropolitan No 1 and GWR 5637 on shed at Hayes Knoll on 24 April 2014. The locomotives were participants in the Swindon and Cricklade Railway Steam Gala the following weekend. <br><br>[Peter Todd 24/04/2014]](/images/47000/47140.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Scene on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 26 April 2014 with ex-GWR 0-6-2T no 5637, currently on loan from the East Somerset Railway, departing with a train for Taw Valley Halt.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47128.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Metropolitan No 1 with a departure from Blunsdon station on 26 April 2014.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47166.jpg "Blunsdon")
![5637 at Taw Valley Halt on the the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 26 April 2014.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47191.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![The Swindon and Cricklade Railway has taken delivery of another working steam locomotive bought from the Spa Valley Railway. Polish TKH 0-6-0T No 3135 <i>Spartan</I> was working the <I>Santa Specials</I> at Hayes Knoll on 6 December.<br><br>[Peter Todd 06/12/2014]](/images/49000/49680.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Polish TKH 0-6-0T No 3135 <I>Spartan</I> in action on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway at Hayes Knoll on 6 December 2014 [see image 49680].<br><br>[Peter Todd 06/12/2014]](/images/49000/49688.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The Swindon and Cricklade Railway's new loco at work. Recently puurchased from the Spa Valley Railway, it is a Polish TK 0-6-0T, imported sometime in the 1990's. The new addition is seen here departing Blunsdon station with a train on 7 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/03/2015]](/images/50000/50591.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Polish TKH 0-6-0T No 3135 <I>Spartan</I> in action on 7 March 2015 after leaving Blunsdon.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/03/2015]](/images/50000/50610.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Class 73 E6003 <i>Sir Herbert Walker</i> at Taw Valley Halt on 21 March 2015 during the Swindon and Cricklade Railway's Diesel Day.<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/03/2015]](/images/50000/50717.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![BR class 09 D3668 photographed on 21 March at Taw Valley Halt on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/03/2015]](/images/50000/50721.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![BR class 03 D2152 at Taw Valley Halt on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 21 March 2015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/03/2015]](/images/50000/50736.jpg "Taw Valley Halt")
![The newly restored Wickham PW trolley at Hayes Knoll on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway in February 2016.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/02/2016]](/images/54000/54162.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST 'Swordfish', sister engine to 'Salmon' now on the Deeside Railway, is seen at Hayes Knoll.<br><br>
<br><br>
Partially dismantled back in the 1960's, a long stay at the Rutland<br>
Rly. Centre and then purchased in 1998 for use on the Swindon and<br>
Cricklade Rly.<br><br>
<br><br>
After a ten year restoration period the engine now moves under its own<br>
steam. Due to PW work, the loco is seen moving in the Hayes Knoll<br>
engine shed yard.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/02/2016]](/images/54000/54206.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST 'Swordfish' seen moving in the Hayes Knoll engine shed yard.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/02/2016]](/images/54000/54221.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
!['Swordfish', sister engine to 'Salmon', on the move in the Hayes Knoll yard.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/02/2016]](/images/54000/54238.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![GWR 2-8-0T 4247, seen leaving Blunsdon, is 100 years old this year, though I doubt much of the original is still there.<br>
<br>
The loco is working on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway for three weekends before moving onto the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/04/2016]](/images/54000/54917.jpg "Blunsdon")
![GWR 2-8-0T 4247, celebrating its 100th birthday in 2016, working on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway leaving Hayes Knoll.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/04/2016]](/images/54000/54923.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![GWR 2-8-0T 4247 running around its train at Hayes Knoll.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/04/2016]](/images/54000/54931.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![D2152 had its cab cut down to pass under the odd low bridge on the G&BPR line [see image 54535].<br><br>
<br><br>
This locomotive is seen here running around its train in 2016 at Blunsdon. It has been brought into use to replace the Thumper Unit which has been badly damaged in a fire. <br><br>[Peter Todd 22/05/2016]](/images/55000/55320.jpg "Blunsdon")
![This is the Thumper Unit which was been badly damaged in a fire at Blunsdon. The non-power car has been destroyed but the power unit is repairable.<br>
[See image 36382] for a view of the unit in happier times.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/05/2016]](/images/55000/55325.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Three box vans full of coach spares and S&T spares were also destroyed by the fire at Blunsdon [see news item]. Most of the contents are beyond repair and irreplaceable as they are ex-GWR/BR items collected during resignalling projects over the last 25 years.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/05/2016]](/images/55000/55342.jpg "Blunsdon")
![The ruined coach of the Swindon and Cricklade's Thumper Unit is now being stripped of any remaining good parts before being scrapped.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/06/2016]](/images/55000/55570.jpg "Blunsdon")
!['Woodbine' a Fowler built 0-4-0DM, passed to run on the GWR in 1941. Named Woodbine after the cigarettes produced in Swindon at the Wills factory.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/07/2016]](/images/56000/56090.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![This shot of the garden train is the SCR's contribution to the GWML electrification program!<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/07/2016]](/images/56000/56409.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![After a year out of service the Swindon and Cricklade's Polish 0-6-0T 3135 SPARTAN has finally returned to service.<br><br>[Peter Todd 30/07/2016]](/images/56000/56719.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![After a year out of service the Swindon and Cricklade's Polish 0-6-0T 3135 SPARTAN has finally returned to service.<br><br>[Peter Todd 30/07/2016]](/images/61000/61800.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![BR Class 09 D3668 working passenger trains on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 22 April 2017.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/04/2017]](/images/59000/59074.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![BR 09 D3668 working today's passenger trains on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/04/2017]](/images/59000/59095.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![BR class 09 D3668 working passenger trains on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway at Hayes Knoll station on 22 April 2017.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/04/2017]](/images/59000/59114.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Swindon and Cricklade Railway Coach No 422 is a former GWR <I>Toad</I> brake van converted in to a Victorian looking guard's van for use in the railway's Vintage Train.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/05/2017]](/images/59000/59517.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST 2138 (aka Swordfish) working the day's passenger trains on the Swindon and Cricklade Rly, 27/05/17. After arriving at the SCR in 1998, it has taken the owners until 2016 to get the engine in steam and running.<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/05/2017]](/images/59000/59626.jpg "Blunsdon")
![Barclay 0-6-0ST 2138 (aka <I>Swordfish</I>) working the Sunday passenger trains on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway. From arriving at the SCR in 1998 it took the owners until 2016 to get the engine in steam and operational.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/05/2017]](/images/59000/59493.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![Class 03 DM 0-6-0 D2152, on a Swindon & Cricklade Santa Special on 25th November 2017, the first day of the season. Barclay 0-6-0ST 2138 <I>Swordfish</I> was the other engine on the train. The train was topped and tailed by two engines to save time on the run rounds, allowing Santa to dole out more presents to the kids at a<br>
faster rate.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/11/2017]](/images/61000/61968.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![The Swindon and Cricklade Rly held its first Santa Specials day of the 2017<br>
season on 25th November 2017. Barclay 0-6-0ST 2138 <I>Swordfish</I> provided the steam power, top and tailed with a diesel shunter, seen here at Hayes Knoll. <br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/11/2017]](/images/61000/61982.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
![D2022, an early example of the Class 03 0-6-0DM shunters, seen under repair in the Hayes Knoll engine shed on 25th November 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/11/2017]](/images/61000/61989.jpg "Hayes Knoll")
