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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.
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Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum; Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford, Gloucestershire; Devon Railway Centre, Devon; Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon; Shillingstone Railway Project, Dorset; Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust; Swanage Railway, Dorset; Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, Devon
Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway near Goodrington Bristol Temple Meads station Penzance station Box Tunnel Windsor Bridge. 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.
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.
In late 2015, No. 6000, along with City of Truro, returned to STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway (located at the site of the old railway works in Swindon), and both were put on display in preparation for Swindon 175 (in 2016), celebrating 175 years since the inception of Swindon as a railway town.
From April 2012 the locomotive is currently undergoing a 10 yearly heavy general overhaul at the West Somerset Railway's workshops at Minehead, Somerset. 6024 undertook a steam test in late 2022 and left the West Somerset Railway by road for Crewe in February 2023 for the completion of its overhaul. As of February 2024, 6024 is still undergoing ...
The locomotive was the eighth of a batch of ten locomotives forming part of the GWR 3700 (or 'City') Class, and was delivered from Swindon Works in May 1903.All ten were named after cities on the GWR system; this batch was originally numbered 3433–42, City of Truro being 3440; like most GWR 4-4-0s, they were renumbered in December 1912, this batch becoming 3710–19 of which City of Truro ...