A steam classic

Love it! Was unaware of a steam museum at Swindon. As a young teenager (and trainspotter in the proper sense of the word), I would regularly visit Swindon loco works when they were open. That all shut a long time ago - so nice to hear that there is some form of museum there now!

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Andy

The museum is in part of the works buildings which still exist at Swindon, along with a shopping outlet Andy.
David

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I do find it worrying that the National Railway museum(s) are offloading their large exhibits at an increasing pace to private institutions.

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Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass

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This is the third locomotive being sold to institutions outside the NRM, the others being the transfer of the North Staffordshire 0-6-2 tank loco to the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire and the LSWR T3 4-4-0 to the Swanage Railway in Dorset. All three are going with strict conditions as to their long term future and all three are going back to the areas where they spent their working lives as opposed to hundreds of miles away in the North of England. . The move has been very controversial but the new owners are all established railway heritage centres and the sales may be to free up National Railway Museum resources for other purchases. I'm keeping an open mind on the wisdom of the policy.

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Always nice to see some Western engineering.

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Best wishes,

Andrew

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