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Links and Acknowledgements

Reference sources

We list here the primary reference sources used whilst developing this website. Our collection holds many Great Western Railway publications which were intended either for sale to the public or for internal use, these included the Great Western Railway Magazine which was published monthly and was available to the publc as well as GWR staff themselves. All these publications provide a wealth of useful information. This has been supplemented by reference to other sources as may be noted here and elsewhere, in the publc domain, in conversation, through emails, and reference to third party websites for which we express our grateful thanks.

Wherever possible information has been double checked but inevitably mistakes and errors may still occur and we would be pleased to receive any comments or corrections.

Online resources

Reference facilities courtesy of Oxfordshire County Council Library Service - Abingdon branch and online

Historical newspaper searches - British Newspaper Archive, The Times Online Archive, Welsh Newspapers Online and other printed newspaper archives
GWR staff records archive and historic UK census returns held by the National Archives - ancestry
Historical aircraft registration data etc. - A Fleeting Peace, Air History and the Civil Aviation Authority,
Historical O.S. map searches - National Library of Scotland
Listed buildings details - Historic England
Planning application details - South Oxford District Council
Satellite imagery - Google maps

Publications

A Century of Medical Service written by Bernard Darwin. Published by the Great Western Railway Medical Fund Society in 1947
A collectors guide to the Ian Allan ABC Locomotive Series 1942-1990 compiled and published by Laurence Waters in 1991 (second edition) ISBN: 0 9511799 18
A Proud Heritage written by John L.Salmon. Published by The Railway Convalescent Homes in December 1954
Discovery from the Air written by G.W.G.Allen. Published by Aerial Archaeology Publications in 1984 ISSN: 0140-9220
Ferries of the Upper Thames written by Joan Tucker. Published by Amberley Publishing in 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84868 967 1
Great Western Railway Magazine years 1888-1947, the monthly staff magazine for GWR employees
Go Great Western - a History of GWR Publicity written by R.B.Wilson and revised by C.Judge. Published by David St John Thomas, distributed by David & Charles in 1987 ISBN: 0 946537 38 0
History of the Great Western Railway written by E.T.MacDermot and published by the GWR in three parts 1927-1931
Official Railway Postcards of the British Isles, Part 2 written by Reginald Silvester. Published by Picton Publishing in 1981 ISBN: 0 902633 75 9
Pole's Book written and published for private circulation by Sir Felix Pole in 1954
Private Owner Wagons of the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd compiled by Keith Montague and published by the Oxford Publishing Co. in 1981 ISBN: 0 869093 124 2
Roads across the Upper Thames Valley Booklets RUTV7 and RUTV12 written and first published by Alan Rosevear in 1993
Signalling Days written by Harold Gasson. Published by Oxford Publishing Co. in 1981 ISBN: 0 86093 118 8
Steaming Spires written by Richard Tolley. Published by David & Charles in 1987 ISBN:0-7153-9081-3
The Abingdon Branch written by Nigel Trippett & Nicholas de Courtais. Published by Wild Swan Publications Ltd. in 1985 ISBN: 0 906867 29 0
The book of Oxford Buses and Trams written by Stephen Jolly and Nick Taylor. First published in 1981 by the Oxford Bus Preservation Syndicate ISBN: 0 9506739 2 7
The Chad Valley promotional jigsaw puzzles written and published by Tom Tyler in 2017 ISBN: 978 0 9567463 4 4
The Heart of the Great Western written by Adrian Vaughan. First published by Silver Link Publishing Ltd. in 1994 ISBN: 1 85794 026 1
The Unfinished History of the Railway Convalescent Homes written by John Whitehouse, published in 1986
Time's Anvil written by Richard Morris. Published by the Orion Publishing Group Ltd. in 2012 ISBN: 978 0 297 86783 8
Tramway Review 'The Tramways of Oxford' by H J H Wheare, in nos 140 (p103-116), 142 (p176-195) and 143 (p213-223) published by the Light Rail Transit Association during 1989 and 1990