Swindon

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Swindon

Station code: SWI National Rail
Where: West and South West England, England
Opened on the Great Western Railway.
Opened on the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (Great Western Railway).




Chronology Dates

17/12/1840Great Western Railway
Faringdon Road to Hay Lane (just west of Swindon) opened. Stations on this section at: Uffington, Shrivenham, Stratton Park Halt, Swindon, Hay Lane (But was this a station?).
31/05/1841Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (Great Western Railway)
Swindon to Kemble to Cirencester Town opened. Stations on this section at: Purton, Minety and Ashton Keynes, Oaksey Halt, Kemble and Cirencester Town.

News items

13/05/2023Former Honda Swindon rail terminal up for sale for £2.2 million [Swindon Advertiser]
04/07/2022Network Rail begins electric van fleet trial [CommercialFleet]
04/10/2021Passengers launch 'mutiny' and force train to REVERSE after service failed to stop at Swindon [Daily Mail]
21/08/2020Iconic building at Swindon station has a brighter future as Network Rail takes back control [Network Rail]
02/01/2019Great Western Railway electrified line goes live [BBC News]
29/06/2016Jail sentence for West Coast SPAD driver [Rail News]
21/05/2016Swindon and Cricklade Railway vintage train destroyed by fire [BBC News]
21/03/2016West Coast prosecution delayed again [Rail News]
21/02/2015All change as Swindon's 1960s signal box departs for museum [BBC News]
02/11/2013Ken White painting is toast of rail museum [Swindon Advertiser]

Books


A History of the Great Western Railway

An Illustrated History of Great Western Diesel Railcars

Great Western Railway Then and Now

Great Western Railway: A History

The Great Western Railway Volume One: Paddington to Bristol: 1

The Great Western Railway: 150 Glorious Years (GWR)