The hooter fell silent 40 years ago, marking the end of 1,100 people and a proud engineering tradition. Swindon’s railway works, where generations built, repaired, and maintained trains for nearly 150 ...

The North Filton station will serve the new Brabazon arena and housing development on the old Filton Airport site, and is due ...

Train passengers heading to London from Swindon will have their journeys disrupted today. Great Western Railway has warned that, due to damage to the overhead electric wires between London Paddington ...

Swindon’s railway works, where generations built, repaired, and maintained trains for nearly 150 years, ceased operations ...

Swindon BC has ambitious plans for town centre regeneration rooted in its historic role in Brunel’s Great Western Railway. Swindon BC has ambitious plans for town centre regeneration rooted in its ...

The plaque has been placed on the last house James Hurst lived in A blue plaque celebrating the life of the Great Western Railway's first locomotive driver has been unveiled in Swindon. James 'Jim' ...

UK operator Network Rail has completed the £45m infrastructure upgrade project on the railway line between Swindon and Kemble. The project included the reinstatement of the second line between Swindon ...

A listed Victorian swimming pool, which has been shut for more than two years, is set to reopen later this month. The Health ...

A historic steam engine's anniversary has reignited plans to bring it back to its former glory. On Tuesday, December 30, 2025, the General Steam Navigation Locomotive 35011 celebrated 81 years since ...

UK rail infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has reopened the bridge over the railway at Stratton Green, following completion of work to prepare it for electrification and for operating a new ...

Swindon's railway links date back to 1843, with the opening of the Swindon Railway Works Swindon plans to submit a bid to become the "home" of Great British Railways (GBR), a new public body in charge ...

A Swindon man who comes from generations of railway workers has described the 'great honour' he felt being chosen to meet the Queen. Great Western Railway worker Adrian Russell is the fifth generation ...