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Please be aware that all articles are grouped into monthly pages, so you may need to scroll down a bit to find the selected article once you have reached the appropriate page.

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 (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 (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) 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. 5 (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

 

 

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