Swindon & Cricklade Railway
Wartime Museum
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A small but well maintained railway wartime museum is present at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway adjacent to the Blunsdon car park.

Located in an ex-LNER 12 ton box van bult just after WWII, it contains a number of dioramas, models, posters and military memorabilia from 1914 to the present day. Outside is a display of larger reconstructions, including a soon-to-be established Anderson shelter, as well as a WW1 dugout with bunk beds and suchlike.

We are also the Gloucestershire Regiment Re-Enactment Group, 2/5 Bn 49th Division WW2, and also 1 Bn 29th Brigade Korea.
Some outside exhibits.

Some of the current displays.
Open on most weekends and Open Days, it is also advisable to check by telephoning (07545 771053) or email adydenton@hotmail.com that it will indeed by open on the given day in question.
The Swindon & Cricklade Railway is
built upon a section of the old track bed (GWR but originally M&SWJR) between the Andoversford and Andover. Lightly used for most of its life, it saw major activity during World War II, especially in the great run-up to D-Day (June 6th, 1944). Large numbers of troop trains going south to the docks at Southamption 		with hospital trains returning along the same route.
If you have any information relating to the war-time history of this particular railway, or the Swindon area in general, then please contact one of the museum officers or other member of the railway. We would love to hear from you!
And don’t forget the annual World War II weekend, usually held in September, at which re-enactors, military equipment and other displays (including provision of spam fritters!) come together to form a truly memorable and enjoyable event.
Click here for information about this year's Wartime Weekend
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