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Swindon Designer Outlet is a covered designer outlet in Swindon, England. The outlet occupies most of the restored Great Western railway works and is owned by McArthurGlen. Built by Tarmac Construction and opened in March 1997, [1] [2] it is a few miles from junction 16 of the M4 motorway. [2] In the eating area, a number of steam locomotives ...
The museum is housed in a former engineering workshop, built c.1842 using squared rubble from the Box Tunnel, and forming part of the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway. [2] The works was one of the largest in the world and operated from 1843 to 1986.
The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway was a railway company intended to link Cheltenham, Gloucester and Swindon, in England. It was authorised in 1836 but it found it very hard to raise money for the construction, and it opened only a part of its line, between Swindon and Cirencester, in 1841.
GWR Swindon 1940 Kent & East Sussex Railway: ... (2012). "23 The Great Western Railcars Numbers 1 to 17". The AEC Story – From the Regent to the Monarch.
It became clear that the GWR needed a central repair works, so in 1840 Gooch identified a site at Swindon because it was at the junction with the Golden Valley line and also a "convenient division of the Great Western line for engine working". With Brunel's support, Gooch made his proposal to the GWR directors, who, on 25 February 1841 ...
The Golden Valley line is the popular name for the railway line connecting Swindon, Gloucester, and Cheltenham Spa in England. [1] Originally constructed as the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, the line opened between Swindon and Kemble (with a branch to Cirencester) in 1841; it took an additional four years to complete the remaining sections.