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Slough & Windsor Railway Society

Open Day

Saturday, 30th March 2024

The Society's meeting place 'The Manor', by Slough railway station, will be open to visitors between 10:00 and 17:00.

(Directions to The Manor)

Come along to have a chat, look inside the Victorian building, visit our museum, and see our exhibition model railway layouts: Slough Estates Sidings, and Taplow.

The club's model railway will be available for children (or adults!) to have a go at driving a train.

SWRS members will be on hand to answer your questions about the Society, our model railway club, and "Slough Estates No.3", our steam locomotive that used to work on the Slough Trading Estate railway.

Entry is free although donations would be very welcome!

(Further information here...)

Slough & Windsor Railway Society
Model Railway Exhibition 2023

Sat 21st and Sun 22nd October – 10:00-16:00

UPDATE!!
Now taking place at Slough Museum and The Manor (SWRS meeting place) with a free vintage bus providing a link between the two!

Further details HERE.

About the SWRS

The Slough & Windsor Railway Society is essentially a social group for anyone interested in rail transport of any kind, especially railways in the area around Slough and Windsor (UK). New members are always welcome (and you don't have to live in Slough or Windsor!).

The Society meets for illustrated talks on Friday nights in a former Great Western Railway building adjacent to Slough railway station, known to us as The Manor.
Non-members are most welcome.

"Friday Nights at The Manor"

26 Apr 2024

Trains Before The Great War
– Part 3

Jeremy Harrison

7:45pm, at 'The Manor', Slough Station (directions)

View circa 1910: complicated pointwork leads to the platforms at which no less than seven passenger trains are waiting beneath the four arched spans of the grand overall roof of York Station.

Jeremy Harrison, from The Locomotive Club of Great Britain (LCGB), will be showing us a further selection of black and white images (scanned glass plates), from 1913 and before, from the historic Ken Nunn collection (now in the care of the National Railway Museum).

Photo – York station approaches – Scan from Hartnell, F.S. (unknown, circa 1910 - 1916) 'All About Railways', London: Cassell". [Public Domain]

Please see the Programme page for more about Friday meetings.

Programme Changes: "Friday Nights at The Manor"

This autumn, several Friday night meetings have had to be re-scheduled due to circumstances beyond our control. Full details may be found on the Programme Page.

Unfortunately, two of our forthcoming speakers are unable to join us this November. Hopefully these evenings can be rescheduled in next year's programme.

Friday,   8th November – Clifton Rocks Railway  – Peter Davey
Friday, 29th November – Transport Miscellaneous – Colin Miell

In their place, Rob Holder will present a Transport Mix evening on 8th November; and on 29th November, Frank Banfield will give us another of his popular evenings of archive ciné film, this time featuring: Railways in the 1950s.

UPDATE – 15th October:
Christian Wolmar has had to postpone his talk from November 24th until early next year, so please note the following additional changes to the programme:

  • 24th Nov – Windsor Link Railway Update – George Bathurst
  • 05th Jan 2018 – My Latest Book – Indian Railways – Christian Wolmar

Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

If you would like more information or to join the Society, please see the Membership page.

"Slough Estates No. 3"

In addition to holding weekly meetings and other events, the Society is the custodian for Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST "Slough Estates Ltd No.3", a 1924-built steam locomotive which operated for 50 years on the Slough Trading Estate Railway.

After a prolonged restoration (read more here), No.3 was finally returned to steam in 2000, and spent a number of years hauling passenger services at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway in Wiltshire.

In 2011, No.3 was relocated to the Middleton Railway in Leeds on long-term loan. This line is close to the site of the Railway Foundry where she was built in 1924. No.3 also closely resembles the last steam loco to work over the railway in NCB days in 1958. It is thus appropriate that she should have 'returned home' to Leeds.

No.3's steam boiler certificate expired in April 2021, so she is now out of traffic until completion of a ten-yearly inspection, which requires complete dismantling of the locomotive. The overhaul will be undertaken at the Middleton Railway. Progress reports may be found on the No.3 News page.

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