Events for October 16th, 2025

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Map of the Works Heritage Trail Route

Walk the Works Heritage Trail

Swindon Railway Village Emlyn Square, Swindon

The Works Heritage Trail guides you around Swindon’s beautifully preserved Railway Village, through the Tunnel and around the former GWR Works – the original industrial heart of Swindon. In the […]

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Railway Village Museum Tour (15th October)

Railway Village Museum 34 Faringdon Road, Swindon

Join us at The Railway Village Museum to step back in time at the cottage to discover Victorian traditions. Witness the sights, sounds and smells of local community life, and learn how a Great Western Railway worker would have lived with their family living in Swindon c1901. What are the details? This approximately 30 minute […]

Get Tickets Free – £5.00

Swindon Works at War

‘Swindon Works at War’ by Jack Hayward

Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon

It is 80 years since the end of WW2, and 40 years since the closure of Swindon Railway Works. The Works contribution as a war factory was colossal, its achievements little recognised. With the two defining factors of WW1 and WW2 leaving their indelible marks in the minds of Swindon Railway workers, what was it […]

Free – £5.00