Swindon &
Cricklade
Railway

Web Site Contents

Home page link Events link Parties link Find Us link Blunsdon Station link Hayes Knoll link Future plans link Extending the railway
Main pages Home Page

Blunsdon Station and Hayes Knoll Station. Information about the two passenger stations on the Railway and their facilities.

Events List of major events planned for the coming months, plus details of other services.

Parties & Private Events Outlines the facilities offered for private parties, Weddings train hire etc.

Driving Experience tells how YOU could take the controls of a steam or diesel locomotive on the Railway.

How to find us Brief directions to the Railway by road, with local road map.
More information News News and events from the Railway.

The News Page also provides links to pages with more information on the Extensions to the Railway, Work on Northern extension, Locomotive and rolling stock restoration, and a page outlining what has happened at Mouldon Hill, the future site of the Railway's third station.

Pictures Five pages of pictures giving more information about steam and diesel traction, rolling stock, stations and Hayes Knoll shed.

This section also includes a list of the steam and diesel locomotives to be seen on the Railway.


Links Page of links to the web sites of many of the major UK heritage railways.

Join us! Join the Swindon & Cricklade Railway! Membership is open to anyone who wants to join us in building the railway, or who simply wants to share privileges and receive our quarterly Newsletter.

Membership Application Membership application forms to print out.
History of the line Brief history of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway Some background on this minor railway that became part of the Great Western at the Grouping.

Maps of the MSWJ Taken from railway timetables published in the 1890s and in 1915.

Late 1800s and 1900 Ordnance Maps of the Crosslanes area.  Shows the locality of Blunsdon Station before and after the railway was built, with notes on Tadpole Lane and the North Wilts Canal.

Tyers single-line tablet instruments, the type that controlled traffic over the Blunsdon section, are described, along with a group of pages reproducing the Regulations that governed their use from the 1890's.

List of MSWJ locomotives Complete list of locomotives, with GWR renumberings etc.

Home page link Events link Parties link Find Us link Blunsdon Station link Hayes Knoll link Future plans link Extending the railway

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