Our group has preserved Swindon Panel, one of the original Western Region “turn push” type panels, the staple panel design of the Great Western since the 1960s, before all the remaining examples close forever in the next few years.

The panel has been reconstructed and refurbished in its 1980’s form and displayed at Didcot Railway Centre, where it is realistically demonstrated with a simulator back-end for the educational benefit of visitors to the Centre. You can visit us and ‘have a go’!

You can get involved in saving the example of this generation of railway signalling development.

You can read all about the project and learn how you can get involved. We also have an extensive Photo Gallery.

Swindon Panel, 2010.

The panel was move to Didcot in 2016. See our latest news for more details.

And now looks like this!

This site is one of a number of online resources of Swindon Panel Society:

(Note some of our photos are still temporarily stored on our old Flickr site.)

We are very grateful for the support we have received from a number of organisations, particularly:

The Great Western Society	Network Rail	The Big Lottery Fund	P & D Specialist Services

Great Western Railway	Railway Herald Magazine	Signet Solutions	Jack Boskett Photography

Altosig Ltd	Eyebrid Contemporary Design	SimSig

Swindon Panel Society is a Registered Charity, number 1159646.