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the positive newsforce in Swindon

and the swindon wide what's on guide
Marking Swindon's
Police double size of
railway history West team to crack down
Twenty years ago on 26 March 1986 the on crime - see page 6
gates of the town's railway works finally
closed after an unsuccessful campaign to
keep it open. There's always a warmn
The revolution in Swindon's fortunes, welcome from Mr Ali
which began when Brunel recommended and his staff at
in 1837 that the GWR build its repair
workshops here, had ended. By the time Purton 's hidden treasure
the famous hooter sounded for the last
ti me the town had grown and diversified,
preparing for the future.
In April ex-railwayman Roy Nash will
exhibit remarkable photographs some
One of the 150 pictures to be displayed. Taken in 1973, chargeman
never seen before - taken inside the
machinist Ken Harrison, refurbishing an axle by spraying liquid bronze
works in the last years before it closed, onto it in No 13 shop. Note the limited health and safety measures of Naha p'ajcah
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