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Enthusiastic ex-railway workers are on hand, to give a personal insight into many of the exhibits. There is a series of reconstructions of areas of work, such as office, stores, workshop, signal box and foundry. The museum holds an extensive archive of books, periodicals, photographs, drawings and plans, relating to the Great Western Railway.
Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent railways can still be found. These may be heritage railways , museums, operational railway stations , or isolated listed structures .
Coleford GWR Museum. Coleford Great Western Railway Museum is a railway museum located in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway. There was also another station situated at Coleford, it was opened by the Severn and Wye Railway.
The National Railway Museum, York is the largest railway museum in the United Kingdom. ... Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire;
Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point. Background
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
The main display and ongoing project at Pendon is a scale representation of the Vale of White Horse as it was in the inter-war period. The scene is centred on the 'typical' village of Pendon Parva, which is served by a railway station on the main London to Bristol GWR main line that runs through the Vale, and another on the M&SWJR that became one of the constituent companies of the GWR in 1923.
One building houses the Museum of the Great Western Railway, dedicated to the works and the GWR. The engineers' office is now the headquarters of English Heritage, with most of the remaining buildings redeveloped as part of the Designer Outlet Village.