A M. & S.W.J.R. Album : A Pictorial History of Swindon’s ‘Other’ Railway, Vol. 1 1872-1899, by Brian Bridgeman, David Barrett, Denis Bird (Redbrick Publishing, Swindon, 1981).

Swindon’s Other Railway : The Midland & South Western Junction Railway 1900-1985, by Brian Bridgeman, David Barrett, Denis Bird (Redbrick Publishing, Swindon, 1985).

Swindon’s Other Railway : The Midland & South Western Junction Railway 1900-1990, by Brian Bridgeman, David Barrett, Denis Bird (Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud, and Redbrick Publishing, Swindon, 1990).

Revised and updated edition of 1985 edition.

The Midland & South Western Junction Railway, by Brian Bridgeman and Mike Barnsley, (Alan Sutton -now Tempus Publishing Limited, Stroud - 1994, in The Old Photograph Series).

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OTHER WORKS.

The Midland & South Western Junction Railway, by T.B. Sands (The Oakwood Press, 1959, 1975, 1979. Revised edition, 1990).

The Midland & South Western Junction Railway, by Colin G. Maggs (David & Charles, 1967. Revised edition, 1980).

Midland & South Western Junction Railway, Volume One, by David Bartholomew (Wild Swan Publications Ltd, 1982).

Midland & South Western Junction Railway, Volume 2 - Locomotives, by Mike Barnsley (Wild Swan Publications Ltd, 1991).

Midland & South Western Junction Railway, Volume 3 - Carriages and Wagons, by Mike Barnsley (Wild Swan Publications Ltd, 1995).

Privilege Tickets for Railway Staff – Regulations issued by the M&SWJR 1921, by Dragonwheel Books 2001.

Cheltenham to Andover, including the Tidworth Branch, by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith (Middleton Press, 2000, in Country Railway Routes series).

SOME OTHER BOOKS WITH REFERENCES TO MSWJR.

*Signalman’s Morning, by Adrian Vaughan (John Murray, 1981).

*Signalman’s Twilight, by Adrian Vaughan (John Murray, 1983.)

(*Republished as combined volume by Pan Books Ltd., 1984.)

Signalman’s Reflections, by Adrian Vaughan (Silver Link Publishing, 1990).

The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part Ten : Absorbed Engines 1922-1947, (Railway Correspondence & Travel Society, 1966.)

A Pictorial Record of Great Western Absorbed Engines, by J. H. Russell (Oxford Pub Co., 1978).

SOME OTHER BOOKS WITH REFERENCES TO MSWJR (continued).

Great Western Locomotive Design, by J. Gibson (David & Charles, 1984).

Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR (Section 22), by R.A. Cooke (date?)

The Engines that Passed, by C. Hamilton Ellis (Geo Allen & Unwin, 1968).

Gone with Regret, by George Behrend (Lombarde Press, 1964).

Swindon’s War Record, by W.D. Bavin (Borough Press, Swindon, 1922).

Walking Old Railways, by Christopher Somerville (David & Charles, 1979).

The Fairlie Locomotive, by Rowland A.S. Abbott (David & Charles, 1970).

Great Western Branch Lines 1955-65, by C.J. Gammell (Oxford Publishing Co.)

Register of GWR Absorbed Coaching Stock, by E.R. Mountford (The Oakwood Press, 1978).

Rail Centres - Swindon, by Colin Maggs (Ian Allan, 1983).

Railways through the Thames Valley, by C.R.L. Coles (Ian Allan, 1982)

Gloucestershire Railways in the Twenties, by Humphrey Household (Alan Sutton, 1985).

The Aerofilms Book of British Railways from the Air, by Chris Leigh (Ian Allan, 1987, republished by The Promotional Reprint Company Ltd., 1995.).

Chiseldon Village and Parish, by Royston Dewey (1970).

Chiseldon Memories, Part One, by Joan M. Collins and Marilyn M. Miller (1991).

The Wantage Tramway, by S.H. Pearce Higgins (Abbey Press, Abingdon, 1958).

Wantage Tramway : A Concise History, by Reg Wilkinson (The Oakwood Press, 1976).

Wantage Tramway, by Courtais (Wild Swan Publications Ltd., 1981).

The Stratford & Midland Junction Railway, by J.M. Dunn (The Oakwood Press, 1952).

Great Western Album, No. 1, by R.C. Riley (Ian Allan, 1966).

GWR Country Stations, by Chris Leigh (Ian Allan, 1981).

The Marlborough Branch : The Railways of Savernake and Marlborough, by Kevin Robertson and David Abbott (Irwell Press, 1990).

Newbury to Westbury, including the Marlborough Branch, by Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith & Kevin Robertson (Middleton Press, 2001, in Western Main Lines series).

Railways of the Cotswolds, by Colin Maggs (Peter Nicholson, 1981).

SOME OTHER BOOKS WITH REFERENCES TO MSWJR (continued).

Odd Corners of the GWR from the days of Steam, by Kevin Robertson (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999).

Branch Lines of Gloucestershire, by Colin G. Maggs (Alan Sutton, 1991).

Branch Lines of Wiltshire, by Colin G. Maggs (Alan Sutton, 1992).

GWR Steam in Colour : Branch Lines (Ian Allan, 1992).

Branch Lines of Wiltshire, by Colin Maggs (1992).

The Last Days of Steam in Gloucestershire, by Ben Ashworth (Alan Sutton, 1980s)

The Last Days of Steam in Gloucestershire - a Second Selection, by Ben Ashworth (Alan Sutton, 1990).

Railway History in Pictures - Wessex, by H. C. Casserley (David & Charles, 1975).

Steam in the West Midlands & Wales, by B. J. Ashworth (Ian Allan, 1975).

Ludgershall Then and Now, by Barbara Humphrey (1992).

GWR Steam in the Severn and Cotswolds, by Rex Kennedy (1993).

Steam Railways around Cheltenham, by Stephen Mourton (Runpast Publns., 1993).

Goucestershire : Steam Finale, by Stephen Mourton (Runpast Publications, 2000).

British Railways : Steaming in the Midlands, Vol. 2, by Peter Hands (Defiant Publications, 1998).

The Great Western at Work 1921-1939, by Adrian Vaughan (Patrick Stephens Lyd., 1993).

Great Western Reflections by Philip Hopkins (Wild Swan Publications, 1995).

Archive Photographs series: Salisbury Plain, by Peter Daniels & Rex Sawyer (Tempus Publishing Ltd., 1997).

Archive Photographs series : Salisbury Plain : A Second Selection, by Peter Daniels & Rex Sawyer (Tempus Publishing Ltd., 1998.)

Archive Photographs series : Marlborough, by Michael Gray (Tempus Publishing Ltd., 1997).

Britain in Old Photographs series : Marlborough, by Michael Gray and Francis James (Alan Sutton, 1982).

Britain in Old Photographs series : Marlborough : A Second Selection, by Pamela Colman (Alan Sutton, 1990).

Britain in Old Photographs series : Cirencester, by Jean Welsford (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000).

SOME OTHER BOOKS WITH REFERENCES TO MSWJR (continued).

The Cirencester Branch, by Nigel Bray (The Oakwood Press , 1998).

Britain in Old Photographs series : Swindon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, by The Swindon Society (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1988-1996).

Britain in Old Photographs series : Wiltshire Railways in Old Photographs, by Kevin Robertson (Alan Sutton, 1998).

Andover, Junction and Town : A Railway Crossroads, by J.R. Fairman (British Rail for Rail Event, 1986).

Andover to Southampton, including Branch Line to Longparish, by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith (Middleton Press, 1990 & 1998, in Country Railway Routes series).

After the Rhinoceros, A Story of Romsey’s Railways, by Stan Cousins and Janet Berrow (The Lower Test Valley Archaelogical Study Group, 1983).

Wiltshire’s Lost Railways, by Peter Dale (Stenlake Publishing, 2002).

The Story of Chiseldon Camp, Part One 1914-1922, by David Bailey (Chiseldon Local History Group, 1998).

Forgotten Railways : Chilterns & Cotswolds, by R. Davies and M.D. Grant (David & Charles, 1978).

Watermoor Through the Ages : Reflections on a Cirencester Community over 150 years, by G. G. Loveridge (1977).

Great Western Way, by J.N. Slinn (Historical Model Railway Society, 1978).

Steam around Gloucester, by Norman Preedy (Peter Watts Publications Ltd, 1985).

Industrial Locomotives of Central Southern England (1982). Ref. Contractors’ locos used to build SMAR / MSWJR.

Mainline to Industry, by Frank Jones (Lightmoor Press, 1998).

Swindon & the GWR, by Richard Tomkins and Peter Sheldon (Alan Sutton & Redbrick Publishing, 1991).

British Railways Past & Present series: No. 22 Wiltshire, by Graham Rouse and Hugh Ballantyne (Past & Present Publishing Ltd., 1994 & 2002).

Cricklade, by Diana Holmes (Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1993 & 2002).

Cricklade Revealed : A Portrait of Social Life between the Wars, Part One, by Marion Parsons (Cricklade Historical Society, 2001).

The Great Western at Swindon Works, by Alan S. Peck (Oxford Publishing Co., 1983 & 1994).

SOME MAGAZINE ARTICLES ETC. REF MSWJR

‘Cutting the First Sod of the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover Railway’, illustration in The Illustrated London News (July 1875).

Photograph of Marlborough and Savernake (GWR) staff, Great Western Magazine, p. 149 (May 1911).

Farewell Trip of last surviving MSWJR loco (No.1336) on 9/5/1953, British Railways Magazine : Western Region Edition, Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 1953).

Photograph of Cheltenham-Southampton train near Chiseldon with 2-6-0 loco. No. 6341, Great Western Railway Magazine, p.9 (January 1942).

Items regarding careers of former MSWJR staff, Great Western Railway Magazine, issues for December 1924 (p. 484), March 1926 (p. 113), April 1926 (p. 155), June

1926 (p. 239), October 1926 (p. 366), January 1928 (p. 79), February 1928 (p. 121), July 1929 (p. 300), .June 1947 (p. 113).

‘Engine No. 27 (late M. & S.W. Jc. No. 18)’, Great Western Railway Magazine 1927 (p. 140).

Marlborough’s ‘own excursion’, Great Western Railway Magazine, p.342 (August 1933).

Articles ref Savernake station, The Railway Magazine, 1932 (Vol. 70) & February/March 1958.

Photographs of loop line at Swindon by T.G. Flinders, The Railway Magazine, November 1971 and June 1972.

Article ref. Savernake station, Trains Illustrated, July 1961.

Articles ref. Cirencester Town (GWR) station, Railway World, 1958 (pp.367/9).

Trains Illustrated, 1960 (pp. 365/6).

The Railway Magazine, 1964 (pp. 742/8).

‘Sold Out of Service : Midland & South Western Junction Railway 2-6-0 No. 14’, by Peter Lee, British Railway Journal, Winter 1990/91.

Item ref. Chiseldon?, The Railway Magazine, April 1899.

Articles ref. Chiseldon, The Railway Magazine, 1961 (pp. 764-70).

‘How the Army came to Salisbury Plain’, by Sidney Vines, The Hatcher Review, Vol. 2, No. 20 (Autumn 1985).

‘Savernake : Country Crossroads’, by David Hyde, Steam World (August 1997).

‘Savernake for ‘Kings’’, by Richard Woodley, Steam World (September 1997).

‘The ‘North’ Express’, by Ron Hacker, Great Western Railway Journal No.24 (Autumn 1997).

SOME MAGAZINE ARTICLES ETC. REF MSWJR (continued).

‘Ludgershall to Tidworth - the military line’, by Ian P. Peaty, Railway Bylines (July 2000).

‘The Great Western’s ‘Bonniest’ Engines, by L.A. Summers, BackTrack (September 2000).

Following the Tracks of Navvies’, by David Viner, Country Life (24 August 1978).

‘The Cotswolds’ other’ Railway, by David Viner, Gloucestershire & Avon Life (March 1978).

‘The Midland and South Western Junction Railway, Great Western Magazine Vol. 35 (1923).

‘From Cheltenham to Andover by the Midland and South Western Junction Railway’. By P. A. Lushington, The Railway Magazine Vol. IV (1899).

‘From the Midlands to the South’, by R.G.R. Calvert, Trains Illustrated, February 1952.

‘The North Express’, by C.Hamilton Ellis, The Railway Magazine (January 1983).

‘Rise and Fall of a Junction Railway’, by Humphrey Household, Country Life (14 June 1979).

‘Great Western Way : MSWJR’, by J.N. Slinn, Historical Model Railway Society Journal (1978).

Items ref. MSWJR, The Railway Magazine, May & June 1943, July & August 1943, October 1961, November 1961.

‘Locomotive and Train Working in the latter part of the 19th Century : Midland and South Western Junction Railway Parts 1 and 2’, by E.L. Ahrons, The Railway Magazine (November/December 1923). Reprinted in Tiddly Dyke, the Magazine of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway Society, Vol. 4 Nos. 2-3 (1981). Note! Also re-published as Part IV in a series of books by Heffer).

‘The Passing of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway’, by T.B. Sands, The Railway Magazine (November 1961).

‘Savernake, a Railway Crossroads in Wiltshire, Parts 1 and 2’, by T.B. Sands, The Railway Magazine (February/March 1958). Reprinted in Tiddly Dyke, the Magazine of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway Society, Vol. 2 Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer/Autumn 1979).

‘Savernake and After’, by T.B. Sands, Tiddly Dyke, the Magazine of the Swindon & Cricklade Railway Society, Vol. 3 3 No. 1 (Spring 1980).

‘The Midland and South Western Junction Railway, Parts 1 and 2’, by D.S. Barrie, The Railway Magazine (March/April 1932).

SOME MAGAZINE ARTICLES ETC. REF MSWJR (continued).

‘The Locomotives of the Midland and South Western Junction Railway’, by F.S. Hollandsche, The Locomotive Magazine Vol. V Nos 52/56 (April/August 1900 inclusive).

‘Passenger Carriages of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway’, by M.P. Barnsley, Historical Model Railway Society Journal.

‘Non-passenger coaching stock of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway’, by M.P. Barnsley, Historical Model Railway Society Journa.

‘Freight Stock of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, Parts 1 and 2’, by M.P. Barnsley, Historical Model Railway Society Journal.

(The above articles on MSWJR rolling stock appeared in HMRS Journals Vol. 10, Nos. 10 & 11 (1981) and Vol. 11, No. 3 (1982)).

‘Travels Through Gloucestershire’, by Chris Gammell, Steam World (December 1996).

‘The hey-day of the Old Town Line’, by ‘White Horse’, The Swindon and District Review (August 1961).

‘Reminiscences of the MSWJR in the Swindon area, 1925-1930’, RCTS Railway Observer, Vol.XXXII, Nos. 395/6 (January/February 1962).

Photographs.., Steam Days (June 1998).

‘Storm clouds brewing on closure of railway line as engines still run’, The Swindon and District Review (March 1964).

‘Still Life : The Remaining Sections of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway’, by Richard D. Tomkins, The Railway Magazine, Vol. 124 124 No. 925 (May 1978).

Headmaster’s Notes ref. Birth and death of Chiseldon’s Railway, The Chiseldonian : Chiseldon School Magazine, No. 17 (June 1964).

‘Taking the slow boat back to Blunsdon GWR’, by Robin Jones, Steam Railway (April 1999).

‘100 Years of a Cotswold Railway Line, Part One’, by Paul Strong, BackTrack, Vol. 6 No. 6 (November-December 1992).

‘100 Years of a Cotswold Railway Line, Part Two’, by Paul Strong, BackTrack, Vol. 7 No. 1 (January-February 1993).

‘Along the ‘Tiddly Dyke’’, Part One, by W.O. Bullock, Steam World, No. 81 (March 1994).

‘Along the ‘Tiddly Dyke’’, Part Two, by W.O. Bullock, Steam World, No. 82 (April 1994).

SOME MAGAZINE ARTICLES ETC. REF MSWJR (continued).

‘The Midland & South Western Junction Railway in the diesel era’, Parts 1 and 2, by Greg Morse, Traction Nos. 85 & 86 (November & December 2001).

Note! Traction No. 88 (February 2002) contains some additional and corrected data regarding articles in Nos. 85 and 86.

‘Modelling Swindon Town - the diesel era’, by Greg Morse, British Railway Modelling, Vol. 9, No. 9 (December 2001).

‘Explosion at North Savernake’, by Mike Christensen, Great Western Railway Journal No.22 (Spring 1997).

Note! Other accounts of the explosion at Savernake of 1946 are in:-

The War Illustrated, Vo. 10, No. 245 (8 November 1946)

The RAOC Gazette (November 1946 and February 1986)

Marlborough Times (4 January 1946), Daily Sketch (4 January 1946)

Great Western Railway Magazine (February & August 1946).

‘Christmas Day on the MSWJR’, by Gordon Shurmer, Great Western Railway Journal, No. 41 (Winter 2002)

‘The Cheltenham to Kingham Line’, by Stanley C. Jenkins, Steam Days, No. 156 (August 2002).

Foss Cross and Chedworth in Later Years’, by Paul Strong, Great Western Railway Journal, No. 43 (Summer 2002).

Photograph of ganger’s trolley at Cirencester MSWJR Works, Great Western Railway Journal, No. 45 (Winter 2003), p. 289.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES REF. SMAR / MSWJR.

Swindon Advertiser, North Wilts Herald, Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard,

Marlborough Times, Andover Advertiser, Andover Standard, Cheltenham Free Press.

See files at Swindon Reference Library, Marlborough, Andover, Colindale Newspaper Library, London.

SOME NEWSPAPER ARTICLES REF. SMAR / MSWJR (not including book reviews).

Some Articles from the Swindon Evening Advertiser.

‘Stationmaster at South Cerney : Mr. E. Brown retiring’, 19/2/1934.

‘Time stands still at this Ghost Station’, 19/6/1959.

‘They want to play out last train’ (Cricklade), 5/4/1961.

‘The railway that is being stifled’, by Colin G. Maggs, 6/7/61.

Closure notice, 18/8/61.

‘Hundreds see rail link farewell : last train to Andover’, 11/9/1961.

‘The march of time has been beaten here’ (Swindon Town Refmt Rooms), 15/6/1962.

‘Swindon may lose old link with Midlands line’, 15/3/1967.

Some Articles from the Swindon Evening Advertiser (continued).

Loop line to nostalgia’, 12/9/1981.

‘On the track of memories’, by R.D. Woodall, 29/4/82.

‘Trip down Memory Lane : Swindon’s ‘other’ railway’’, 12/1/1980.

Articles ref. Swindon tunnel, 1/5/81, 14/5/82, 20/5/82, 28/1/83. 21/4/83.

‘Branch line fights to survive’, 14/6/85.

‘The changing face of Old Town’s railway’, 6/3/1987.

‘Old Town Station was Pick of Bunch’, 29/1/2001.

‘No Trains, but still a good pint of beer’, by Shirley Mathias, 30/7/2001.

‘Emotions high at end of line’, by Helen Moss, 8/9/200, & article ref. MSWJR exhibition at STEAM museum, 11/9/2001.

‘Swindon’s Other Railway’, by Dominic Ponsford, 4/7/2002.

‘The Forgotten Train Tragedy’, by Shirley Mathias, 8/7/2002.

‘Death out of Nowhere’, by Shirley Mathias, 15/7/2002.

General letters/photos, 27/6/60, ?/2/61, ?/3/61, 27/3/61, 28/3/61, 5/4/61, 24/4/61, 19/8/61, 21/8/61, 25/8/61, 26/8/61, 29/8/61, 4/9/61, 8/9/61, 15/2/64, 10/4/64, 15/12/64 (Ogbourne), 21/7/66, 16/8/68 (Ogbourne), 14/1/69, 15/1/69 (Ogbourne), 17/1/69, 15/11/69, 17/4/70, 14/9/70, 2/10/70, 13/10/70, 15/10/70, 1/4/71, 7/9/71 (Grafton), 9/6/72, 10/7/72, 28/11/72, 18/2/77, 7/2/78, 12/7/78 (Rushey Platt), ?/1/80 (Railroading the First War effort), 18/2/83, 10/4/84, 26/4/84, 30/10/85, 10/4/87.

Articles, letters and notes ref. Chiseldon’s railway, ?/3/61, 28/3/61, 12/9/61, 21/7/65, 29/7/65, 19/7/66, 24/11/67, 1/12/67, 19/3/68, 25/5/68, 27/5/68, 16/8/68, 23/9/69.

Decline/demolition of Swindon Town Station, 7/4/66, 8/1/68, 22/1/68, 23/1/68, 19/2/68, 15/11/69.

‘Life returns to deserted rail station’ (Savernake High Level), 8/10/63, 27/3/86.

Articles, letters and photos ref. Marlborough stations, 15/6/60, 2/8/61, 8/4/61, 4/7/61, 7/9/61, 22/9/61, ?/2/65, 2/5/64, 13/2/65, 17/2/65, 21/6/65, 31/1/66.

Articles/photos ref. Cirencester station, 18/2/66, 1/2/68, 31/1/78.

Other Newspapers.

‘The Last Train -- End of the Old Junction Railway’, Marlborough Times, 15/9/61.

‘The rise and fall of the ‘Tiddly Dike’’, Gloucester Echo, 27/5/81.

‘End of popular pub’ (Swindon Town Refreshment Rooms), Swindon Echo, 5/2/65.

‘The ‘Tiddlydike’ Branch Line dies today’, The Times, 9/9/61.

‘Village that was once a Busy Farming Centre’ (Chiseldon), North Wilts Herald & Advertiser 24/2/50.

Rail News, August and October 1972.

‘Diesel runs off the line that isn’t there’, Daily Mail 2/5/64.

‘When trains puffed down the Milky Way’, Western Dail;y Press, 3/7/2002.

ALSO.

Astill’s Original Swindon Almanack & Trades Registers / North Wilts and District Directories from c. 1870 for information regarding SMAR, MSWJR and GWR in trades section. Available at Swindon Reference Library.

Articles/photographs ref. MSWJR, The Cheltenham Chronicle & Glo’shire Graphic (various issues 1901-1913). Available at Swindon Reference Library.

For further details regarding the abortive Swindon tunnel on the SMAR see :-

A History of the Queen’s Park Community Area, Chapter 6, The Queen’s Park, and, Chapter 7, Newcastle Street to Euclid Street, by K. Walter, privately published in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Available at Swindon Reference Library.

Board of Trade Accident Reports: Ludgershall, 23/9/1893; Marlborough, 5 April 1895; Rushey Platt, 26/6/1895; Ogbourne, 30/4/1900; Collingbourne, 10/5/1905; Cheltenham, 17/1/1913.