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Swindon, The Railway Museum, Faringdon Road c.1965
Photo ref:
S254090
More about this scene
This building was originally built by the Great Western Railway as a lodging house for single men in 1846, and was called the Barracks. It was converted to a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists by T S Lansdown of Swindon in 1869 - it could accommodate a congregation of 1,000. Closed in c1959, it became Swindon's Railway Museum in 1962 and remained as such until 1999. The new Steam Museum was opened in 2000. The building is now planned to be used by the New Mechanics' Institution Preservation Trust in their quest to restore this area of Swindon's railway heritage.
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