Swindon Steam Museum

In its heyday the GWR works in Swindon covered 323 acres. The site now houses a factory outlet retail park and the Railway Museum which tells the story of locomotive manufacturing. The museum isn't on the scale of York or Didcot but it is well worth a visit. |more days out| 

Here's a good pub quiz question: when was the last steam loco built for British Railways and what was its name? It was built here at the Swindon works in 1960 and named Evening Star - number 92220 for the anoraks. The train driving simulator is quite fun. |map| |next attraction|

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