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Destination India the bigger picture
After spending the last decade trav-
elling around Europe and Australia,
and the last two years as a nanny
locally, Catherine Ord from Haydon
Wick, has departed again for a fi ve
month trip around South India.

Catherine in front of the Farewell to King George V. Veteran railway photographer Roy Nash captured the night time departure of
Swindon Mela elephant Swindon’s most famous locomotive for a two year visit to the National Railway Museum in mid-October. She
She has started a course in fea- is pictured on the original GWR traverser next to the Steam Museum at Churchward, in front of the GWR
ture journalism and the experience design offi ce - built in the early 1840s - now occupied by the National Monuments Record. KGV was designed
will give her an enormous amount in the building in the early 1920s. When the engine returns new apartments should have been built between
of material to draw upon. the NMR and Steam around the blue steel frame in the picture.
Catherine will be writing about See Roy’s images of the arrival of Evening Star and departure of King George V at www.swindonlink.
her trip at www.swindonlink.com com
and she will be sending back stories • Did you work in the GWR? Swindon 105.5fm is creating an oral archive of Swindon and the railways. If you
and images when she can. have memories you would like to talk about, call Swindon Community Radio on 611555.

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