Ron Bateman joined the Swindon Works Training School in 1977, when it was still building locomotives, so witnessed the final decade of 147 years of engineering there. In this personal account he also draws on the memories of colleagues to recall the battle to save this iconic institution, which was central to life and business in Swindon, and the wider railway network, before its final closure in 1986.
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