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| GWR Jigsaw Puzzles (Museum Display) | 24 | March 2020 |
| 1938 Holiday Haunts (Poster) | 31 | March 2020 |
| 1930s Doll in GWR Uniform | 7 | April 2020 |
| Titanic Ticket | 14 | April 2020 |
| 1950s BR(WR) Holiday Express Handbills | 21 | April 2020 |
| 1944 Wartime Savings Leaflet to GWR Employees | 28 | April 2020 |
| BR(WR) 1966 Notice to Enginemen, guards etc. re. Didcot Power Station | 5 | May 2020 |
| 1949 Railway Executive Brochure re. Model Railway | 12 | May 2020 |
| 1950s Reading Signal Works - Llandilo Junction Interlocking | 19 | May 2020 |
| Holiday Haunts (1929/1947 Books, and 1933 Express Train) | 26 | May 2020 |
| July 1961 BR(WR) London Division News | 2 | June 2020 |
| Didcot Market Pocket Watch | 9 | June 2020 |
| 5" Gauge Model of 1880 Dean 2-4-0T Locomotive | 16 | June 2020 |
| July 22 1939 - Modern Wonder - The Pictorial Review Periodical | 23 | June 2020 |
| 1908 Isambard Kingdom Brunel Medal (LSE) | 30 | June 2020 |
| C.1932 Newquay Poster - Bruce Angrave | 7 | July 2020 |
| Locomotive Nameplates | 14 | July 2020 |
| Smokebox Numberplate and Shed Plate from 'Scottish' Pannier Tank 1646 | 21 | July 2020 |
| GWR Staff Social & Recreational Events - No.1 - Staff Association Music Festival 1939 | 28 | July 2020 |
| All aboard for the ‘Radio Cruise’ | 4 | August 2020 |
| Inauguration Ceremony . . . for the new computer! | 11 | August 2020 |
| Special Trips (Excursions) | 18 | August 2020 |
| Poster Surprise | 25 | August 2020 |
| Anyone for Tea? (Lyons, Fry's and the GWR) | 1 | September 2020 |
| Great Western Camp Coaches | 8 | September 2020 |
| Artefacts of the Swindon Marlborough and Andover Railway Co | 15 | September 2020 |
| Shaken but not stirred? (Hotels Refreshment and Restaurant Car liquid refreshment) | 22 | September 2020 |
| Getting away from the grind (Departmental ‘Annual Outings’) | 29 | September 2020 |
| 15 1/2" cast iron GWR letters from Acton | 6 | October 2020 |
| Moving Home (House removals by Road Rail containers) | 13 | October 2020 |
| The Noxious Weed (Artefacts related to smoking) | 20 | October 2020 |
| Westwood Box (an oil painting by Malcolm Root FGRA) | 27 | October 2020 |
| Children’s Education through Railway Publications - Part 1 | 3 | November 2020 |
| The World War 2 Railway Staff’s Home Guard Volunteering | 10 | November 2020 |
| Railway Housing | 17 | November 2020 |
| The GWR Office 1838-1947 | 24 | November 2020 |
| Out with the old (British Railways Modernisation Plan Poster - Warship Class) | 1 | December 2020 |
| Christmas is Coming (Children's books / The Railway Story book) | 8 | December 2020 |
| Every Picture Tells a Story (The Meccano Magazine / Hornby-Dublo Trainsets) | 15 | December 2020 |
| Four Candles! (Christmas Posters and Christmas Cards) | 22 | December 2020 |
| Racing (Company Publicity and Transport for Horses) | 12 | January 2021 |
| Railways and Education (Educational Excursions and Resources) | 19 | January 2021 |
| Norton Fitzwarren Stationmaster's House | 26 | January 2021 |
| The Artwork of Railway Service Information (Excursion Booklets & Handbills) | 2 | February 2021 |
| Half a Century of Decimalised Money | 9 | February 2021 |
| So Much More than a Name(Plate) (Highclere Castle, Lord Carnarvon and Tutankhamun) | 16 | February 2021 |
| Railway Card Games | 23 | February 2021 |
| Golf (The Best Golf is in the West poster) | 2 | March 2021 |
| The “Radio Train” (Western Region excursion leaflet) | 9 | March 2021 |
| The Glorious West (GWR 1933 travel brochure) | 16 | March 2021 |
| It's About Time! (Paddington Goods Accounts Office Clock and ‘Railway Time’) | 23 | March 2021 |
| Easter Cheer (1937 publicity leaflet) | 30 | March 2021 |
| Holidays by Train (1957 Wales and North West holiday guide) | 6 | April 2021 |
| A Great Survivor (1839 GWR Timetable - London to Maidenhead and Twyford) | 13 | April 2021 |
| Spring Holidays (BR(WR) 1954/5 handbill) | 20 | April 2021 |
| West of England Car Tourist Service (1956/7 poster - including steam hauled train) | 27 | April 2021 |
| Let's Fly Away (GWR Air Services) | 4 | May 2021 |
| Eton College (and its developing relationship with the GWR) | 11 | May 2021 |
| Our Feathered Friends (Live Pigeon traffic) | 18 | May 2021 |
| Transition Publicity - Steam to Diesel (and the role of the Diesel Railcar and DMU) | 25 | May 2021 |
| A further look into the case books of the Paddington First Aid Post | 1 | June 2021 |
| Glorious Devon (1930s Publicity material for Teignmouth and Lynton and Lynmouth) | 8 | June 2021 |
| Happy Families (BR(WR) Poster and the joys of Business Class travel) | 15 | June 2021 |
| Football Crazy (Handbill and Poster regarding travel to football matches) | 22 | June 2021 |
| Shining a light on stations (Station lighting, including a splendid example from Burnham Beeches) | 29 | June 2021 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 1 (and the mystery of the ‘Bullets holiday special’) | 6 | July 2021 |
| Women Railway Employees (and in particular their role in handling parcels) | 13 | July 2021 |
| Cornwall (GWR Posters and publicity material) | 20 | July 2021 |
| Postcards with a difference (4073 Caerphilly Castle & GWR 0-8-2T loco No 1379) | 27 | July 2021 |
| Olympic Games 1948 (Photographs and a BRWR handbill) | 3 | August 2021 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 2 (Two holiday handbills) | 10 | August 2021 |
| Children's Education through Railway Publications - Part 2 | 17 | August 2021 |
| Avoiding the West Country Traffic (Take your car on the train) | 24 | August 2021 |
| Party Outings by Rail (Publicity for party travel) | 31 | August 2021 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 3 (Luggage in advance) | 7 | September 2021 |
| Festival of Britain Western Region Trains | 14 | September 2021 |
| Some Broad Gauge Snapshots (Teignmouth, Dawlish and the Royal Albert bridge) | 21 | September 2021 |
| GWR Railcars Under Construction | 28 | September 2021 |
| The Joy of the Journey - GWR Style (A 1926 pamphlet) | 5 | October 2021 |
| Bridge Testing - GWR Style (Felin Fran C. 1910) | 12 | October 2021 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 4 (The 'Indian Summer') | 19 | October 2021 |
| Accidents can happen (An Incident with Auto Coach No, 91) | 26 | October 2021 |
| Enticing the Americans (Publicity for the transatlantic market) | 2 | November 2021 |
| Our First Vlog (Video Blog)! (The Museum office display) | 9 | November 2021 |
| Office Modernisation on the GWR (The arrival of the typewriter) | 16 | November 2021 |
| The Bug House (Carriage fumigation at Swindon Works) | 23 | November 2021 |
| Hornby Railways (of the 'O' Gauge tinplate variety) | 30 | November 2021 |
| Popular Games for Christmas? (Jigsaw puzzle - ‘The Fishguard Army 1797’) | 7 | December 2021 |
| (Christmas communication to staff - 1959) | 14 | December 2021 |
| (Live steam models in the GWT collection) | 21 | December 2021 |
| A Locomotive Footplate Photo with a Difference! | 18 | January 2022 |
| Accidents did Happen! (The importance of reporting accidents) | 25 | January 2022 |
| Rambling and the GWR (Rambles in the Chiltern Country 1949) | 1 | February 2022 |
| Children's Education through Railway Publications - Part 3 (The World’s Railroads by T E North) | 8 | February 2022 |
| 70 Years Ago Today, The Funeral of King George VI at Windsor (The Western Region's arrangements) | 15 | February 2022 |
| GWR Staff Social & Recreational Events - No.2 (An amateur production of The Gondoliers in 1905) | 22 | February 2022 |
| Careers on the Railways (A BR booklet of 1952) | 1 | March 2022 |
| The GWR and Model Railways (The Hornby 'Flying Pig' goods train set) | 8 | March 2022 |
| Enticing the Americans - Part 2 (The GWR's New York Office) | 15 | March 2022 |
| Enticing the Americans - Part 3 (Wot No Ice? booklet of 1950) | 22 | March 2022 |
| Delivering the Goods (Conveyance of liquids in bulk by rail) | 29 | March 2022 |
| A Special Treat (A boy's private visit to the engine shed) | 5 | April 2022 |
| A Day at the Races (Race day trains publicity posters) | 12 | April 2022 |
| Walking Tours by Rail (A 1960s Western Region leaflet) | 19 | April 2022 |
| GWR Publications - The Literature of Locomotion (A 1929 pamphlet) | 26 | April 2022 |
| An Historic Locomotive! (Pendennis Castle) | 3 | May 2022 |
| Excursions in the Last Summer Before War (1914 Excursions to London) | 10 | May 2022 |
| (1937 Bertram Mills Circus poster) | 17 | May 2022 |
| Changing Times and Changing Fashions (1914 & 1979 pamphlets compared) | 24 | May 2022 |
| A Royal Coronation (Special arrangements for coronation of 1902 and 1953) | 31 | May 2022 |
| GWR Commercial Advertising Initiatives (C.1930 Advertising in Carriages leaflet) | 7 | June 2022 |
| GWR Staff Social & Recreational Events - No.3 (1929 Arts & Crafts medal and certificate) | 14 | June 2022 |
| To Enjoy on the Journey - BR Style (The packed meal carrier carton) | 21 | June 2022 |
| A Special Arrangement (Temporary platform at Churn) | 28 | June 2022 |
| Arresting the Eye - The Power of the Poster (and Collico cases) | 5 | July 2022 |
| British Locomotive Industry and the GWR (The Bagnall built pannier tanks) | 12 | July 2022 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 5 (Rail facilities for motorists) | 19 | July 2022 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 6 (Torquay) | 26 | July 2022 |
| Delivering the Goods - Part 2 (A competition for staff to raise traffic) | 2 | August 2022 |
| (Paddington quick lunch and snack bar) | 9 | August 2022 |
| Accidents did Happen - No. 2 (Regulations for locomotives coupled together between Old Oak Common & Paddington) | 16 | August 2022 |
| TSS St.Helier (Built in 1925 for the Weymouth - Channel Islands service) | 23 | August 2022 |
| A Special GWS Anniversary (40 years since the original museum building opened) | 30 | August 2022 |
| St Giles' Fair, Oxford (A BRWR handbill of 1948) | 6 | September 2022 |
| A Royal Commemoration (Looking back at the coronation in the BR Magazine of June 1953) | 13 | September 2022 |
| The Soil Mechanics Laboratory | 20 | September 2022 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 7 (Indian summer in the West, 1921) | 27 | September 2022 |
| The Influence of GWR Publicity (Souvenir Cornish Riviera Ltd. Matchbook) | 4 | October 2022 |
| Banbury Fair (1948 BR Handbill) | 11 | October 2022 |
| Back to Basics (GWR Chamber Pot and Lavatory Paper) | 18 | October 2022 |
| Children's Education through Railway Publications - Part 4 (1969 Boy's Own annual predicts the APT) | 24 | October 2022 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 8 (Mid week holiday returns) | 1 | November 2022 |
| Railways as Common Carriers (A 'Big Four' Cash on Delivery leaflet) | 8 | November 2022 |
| The World War 2 Railways - Facts about British Railways | 15 | November 2022 |
| When Cash and Coinage Mattered (Internal notice - re. base coins) | 22 | November 2022 |
| GWR Instructions to Passenger Guards, 1874 | 29 | November 2022 |
| Warmth and Comfort for GWR Passengers (Rug and pillow hire) | 6 | December 2022 |
| Christmas for the Departmental Railway Staff (A 1951 card from the Western Region Civil Engineer and Staff) | 13 | December 2022 |
| A GWR Carriage a Long Way from Home (A GWR carriage in a train passing through Oxenholme) | 20 | December 2022 |
| GWR Staff Social & Recreational Events - No.4 (Loco. & Carr. Dept., Engineer’s Office Swindon, First annual dinner) | 10 | January 2023 |
| GWR Staff Social & Recreational Events - No.5 (GWR’s Oxford Station Telegraph Office staff) | 17 | January 2023 |
| GWR Clocks (Some examples from the GWT collection) | 24 | January 2023 |
| Giant Strides (A 'Western' diesel poster) | 31 | January 2023 |
| Calligraphy at its Finest (Illuminated address and silver salver presented to John Hodson Read) | 7 | February 2023 |
| The BRWR Staff Association (Autumn 1972 Magazine, featuring D1000 class diesel) | 14 | February 2023 |
| (The great snowfall of January/February 1963 - BRWR poster and magazine article) | 21 | February 2023 |
| Inter-City (and The Inter-City Paddington-Birmingham express) | 28 | February 2023 |
| Railway Services and Local Garages | 7 | March 2023 |
| The GWR Expansion in 1923 (Grouping and the GWR) | 14 | March 2023 |
| St. Ives (A poster by Robert Borlase Smart and Daphne Pearson) | 21 | March 2023 |
| The Great Western Style of Advertising (as featured in The Railway Diary and Officials' Directory for 1928) | 28 | March 2023 |
| Corporate Image on the Railways (A new uniform in 1966) | 4 | April 2023 |
| A Day at the Races - No.2 (Beaverbrook newspapers day - Cheltenham 1966) | 11 | April 2023 |
| Delivering the Goods - Part 3 (The Royal Agricultural Show) | 18 | April 2023 |
| The Glorious Thames (BRWR brochures of 1950 and 1962) | 25 | April 2023 |
| A Coronation (Paperwork from 1902 to 1953) | 2 | May 2023 |
| One Morning in May (Photos taken near Denham Golf Club Halt on 12 May 1956) | 9 | May 2023 |
| The Kiddies' Express (Special trains to Weston-super-Mare) | 16 | May 2023 |
| The Golden Hind Express (Paperwork from 1902 to 1953) | 23 | May 2023 |
| Railways as Common Carriers - Part 2 (Service for Race Horses) | 30 | May 2023 |
| BR Publicity - Facts and Figures (1960s Passenger Services poster) | 6 | June 2023 |
| More Facts and Figures (The Railway Handbook) | 13 | June 2023 |
| Postcards with a Difference - 2 (The Cornish Riviera Limited Express) | 20 | June 2023 |
| Railway Timetables | 27 | June 2023 |
| Larceny! (Evening Star's Nameplates) | 4 | July 2023 |
| Delivering the Goods - Part 4 (Flower Traffic - Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly) | 11 | July 2023 |
| Enticing the Europeans - Part 1 (A set of pamphlets) | 18 | July 2023 |
| Midland and South Western Junction Railway | 24 | July 2023 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 9 (Paignton and Weston-super-Mare posters) | 1 | August 2023 |
| Accidents Did Happen - No. 3 (The NUR orphan fund 1948 annual report) | 8 | August 2023 |
| A Special Locomotive Anniversary (4073 Caerphilly Castle) | 15 | August 2023 |
| Barry Railway Company Roll of Honour (1914-18) | 22 | August 2023 |
| A Special Locomotive and Her Driver ((4073 Caerphilly Castle and Driver William Morris) | 29 | August 2023 |
| A Special Excursion (Behind City of Truro from Plymouth to Penzance) | 5 | September 2023 |
| Delivering the Goods - Part 5 (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Hamper) | 12 | September 2023 |
| Swindon Works Under Churchward as CME (A Baldwin locomotive photo in the GWR Swindon files) | 19 | September 2023 |
| Station Name Boards (Examples from our collection) | 26 | September 2023 |
| Western Region Re-organisation (as all the former Southern lines in Devon & Cornwall transfer) | 3 | October 2023 |
| Acts of Parliament (Abandonment of the Bodmin Railway and the unimportance of the labouring classes' dwellings in Penzance) | 10 | October 2023 |
| Dinner is Served (A Bristol Joint Station plate and other animals) | 17 | October 2023 |
| A Piece of Old Swindon? (Notice regarding which types of locomotive could stand around the turntable) | 24 | October 2023 |
| Accidents Did Happen - No. 4 (Safety failings in Didcot provender store) | 31 | October 2023 |
| Launceston Signal Box 1943 Diagram | 7 | November 2023 |
| (Great Western Society stock movements from Taplow and Plymouth -1967) | 14 | November 2023 |
| A VIP Special Train (to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell) | 21 | November 2023 |
| A 'Land Cruise' to the North Cornish Coast | 28 | November 2023 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 11 (How to advertise in 'Holiday Haunts') | 5 | December 2023 |
| Holidays by Train - Part 12 (More on 'Holiday Haunts') | 12 | December 2023 |
| The Great Western Railway's Centenary Banquet (and the 'Lord of the Isles' cigar holder) | 19 | December 2023 |
| Football Crazy (Excursion train handbills of 1909) | 9 | January 2024 |
| (The opening of the Plymstock to Yealmpton Branch -1898) | 16 | January 2024 |
| A Simple Blueprint Opens Up Great War Ambulance Train History (Receptacle for Excreta) | 23 | January 2024 |
| Railway Dogs (Keeping the Welsh valleys lines clear of sheep) | 30 | January 2024 |
| Flight of Fancy (British Rail posters - ABBA and BOAC 747) | 6 | February 2024 |
| British Industries Fair 1934 (in London and Birmingham) | 13 | February 2024 |
| A Special Consideration (The work of C J Allen - The Cornish Riviera Express in 1927) | 20 | February 2024 |
| Barmouth (Posters from 1924 and 1962) | 27 | February 2024 |
| A Very Special Locomotive (Caerphilly Castle selected by the Science Museum) | 5 | March 2024 |
| We See Ourselves - The Permanent Way Men (A BR era leaflet) | 12 | March 2024 |
| Accidents Did Happen - No. 5 (De-railment of Western Fusilier at Oxford - January 1975) | 19 | March 2024 |
| Children's Education through Railway Publications - Part 5 (The Golden Stamp book of British Trains) | 26 | March 2024 |
| Axle Box Syphon (for extracting water from loocmotive axle boxes) | 2 | April 2024 |
| A Special Event (The new 1927 station at Newton Abbot) | 9 | April 2024 |
| Westbury Refreshment Rooms (The 1900 building and stained glass window) | 16 | April 2024 |
| A Special Exhibition (at Oxford Rewley Road in April 1960) | 23 | April 2024 |
| Children's Education through Railway Publications - Part 6 (Daily Mail 'Young Britain' Educational Series) | 30 | April 2024 |
| More on Pendennis Castle ('The Great Western' special train of 9 May 1964) | 9 | May 2024 |
| Great Western Society Heritage (Didcot Open Day - 15 May 1971) | 14 | May 2024 |
| Pride in the Job (From the collection of Harold Holcroft) | 21 | May 2024 |
| Enticing the Americans - Part 4 (Special 'rail cars' - The super saloons) | 28 | May 2024 |
| Advertising Standards (A Waterford poster of 1907 and 1967 advertising 'of its time') | 4 | June 2024 |
| Pride in the Job 2 (Naming the last Castle class - No. 7037 Swindon) | 11 | June 2024 |
| Pride in the Job 3 (1961 BRWR Swindon Railway News article about pattern maker Viv Rogers) | 18 | June 2024 |
| Weekend Golf (Advertising brochures of 1962 and 1964) | 25 | June 2024 |
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