Fleming remained with Swindon throughout a playing career spanning 1907 and 1924 and went on to live in the town for his entire life.

Ure continued to feature regularly for Arsenal as the 1960s went on, but during this time built a reputation for errors, exemplified by his mistake in the 1969 League Cup final against Swindon Town, which allowed Roger Smart to score Swindon's opening goal ; Swindon went on to win 3 – 1 after extra time.

The Latics lost at the two-legged semi-final stage to Swindon, who went on to win the final promotion place.

Paul Bodin of Swindon Town stepped up but hit the woodwork and Romania went on to win 2 – 1, Răducioiu's late goal proving unnecessary as Czechoslovakia dropped a point in Belgium and were knocked out.

In Swindon GWR FM went digital along with sister station Classic Gold, BBC Radio Swindon, Swindon FM and XFM amongst others.

The 1958 decision resulted in Woodham Brothers winning a tender to scrap locomotives, and in 1959 Dai Woodham went to Swindon Works for a week to learn how to scrap steam locomotives: " It was a completely different job from what we were used to.

He made his debut for Swindon in the 1 – 1 draw with Gravesend United on 30 January, and went on to play seven more matches during the remainder of the season.

The game went to a penalty shootout, one of which was saved by Robinson ( Swindon missed another penalty, hitting the post ) to help his team to victory.

Although Macari went on to lead Swindon to the Fourth Division title in 1986, it was without Gregg-he had an open disagreement with Macari which led to them both being sacked in April 1985.

He went on to play for Swindon Town, Torquay United, Rochdale, Sunderland and St Mirren.

He notably played for Liverpool, Rangers and Aston Villa, and later went on to play for Stoke City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Southampton, Swindon Town and Bristol Rovers.

Mattel swiftly went on to integrate Bluebird's products into its own lines, closing the headquarters in Swindon and offering redundancy packages to all those who were not offered relocation to the Mattel headquarters.

He was brought up in Swindon where he went to Churchfields School and Swindon College.

He could not hold down a regular place in the Arsenal first team, although he did score a headed goal in the 1969 League Cup Final against Swindon Town, to send the game into extra time ; Arsenal went on to lose 3 – 1.

Although Swindon Town won the game 1-0 through a Gary Bennett own goal, Sunderland went on to claim their place in the First Division as Swindon were refused entry due to a series of financial irregularities by the Swindon Town board.

He went straight into the starting line-up, and helped Swindon to a playoff place in the Third Division, with ten goals.

After spending almost the entire 2009 / 2010 season in the top six of League One, Charlton were defeated in the Football League One play-offs semi-final second leg on penalties to Swindon Town, condemning Charlton to another season in the third tier of English Football.

On 30 July 2008, Partridge summed up the status of the band on the news website Swindon Advertiser, in his " Ask Andy " column:

Swindon railway station is on the line from London Paddington to Bristol.

This original market area is on top of the hill in central Swindon, now known as Old Town.

Between 1841 and 1842, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Swindon Works was built for the repair and maintenance of locomotives on the Great Western Railway ( GWR ).

The New Swindon Improvement Company, a co-operative, raised the funds for this path self-improvement and paid the GWR £ 40 a year for its new home on a site at the heart of the railway village.

However, based on all results during their time in the Premier League and Football League up to 2010 – 11, Swindon are ranked as the all-time 47th most successful English football club domestically.

There were several reasons for positioning a new station at Stoke Gifford: trains to London were quicker than on the longer route from Temple Meads, via Bath and Chippenham before reaching Swindon ; a larger car park than at Temple Meads could be provided ; the population on the northern fringes of the city was growing, especially with the building of a new town at Bradley Stoke ; and it was within easy access of the M4 and M5 motorways.

The section from Wootton Bassett Road to was opened on 31 May 1841, as was Swindon Junction station where the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway ( C & GWUR ) to Cirencester connected.

The university opened a second site, Oakfield Campus, in 2000 on Marlowe Road Swindon, on a site leased from the Council.

While at Leeds United, he spent time on loan at Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player.

At the start of the 2003 – 04 season, Milner was sent on a month-long loan to Division Two side Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player.

Traffic on the single track Golden Valley Line between Kemble and Swindon and the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester has increased significantly and a dual track line is now being reinstated here.

The English section of the motorway was completed on 22 December 1971 when the stretch between junctions 9 and 15 ( Maidenhead and Swindon ) was opened to traffic.

T. Spicer has suggested the battle took place on the grounds of what is now Lydiard Park, Swindon.

The agricultural landscape is then soon supplanted on the right by the sidings around the West Somerset Railway Association ’ s ( WSRA ) workshops, which are housed in a corrugated iron building known as the Swindon Shed as it was originally built there more than 100 years ago.

The Castle class was noted for superb performance overall, and notably on the Cheltenham Flyer during the 1930s: for example, on 6 June 1932 the train, pulled by 5006 Tregenna Castle, covered the 77. 25 miles from Swindon to Paddington at an average speed of 81. 68 mph start-to-stop ( 124. 3 km at an average speed of 131. 4 km / h ).

Swindon was the second team to win promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs, beating Leicester City.

In 1969 Swindon beat Arsenal 3 – 1 to win the League Cup for the only time in the club's history.

* The highest scoring game was Manchester United's 8 – 4 win against Swindon Town in 1911.

After Geraint Williams ' positive influence on the team they secured their League One status on 13 April with a 1 – 0 win over Swindon Town at the County Ground, and eventually finished the season in 14th place.

The 2005 / 06 season saw the Surrey based side win most of their games, with a twenty game winning streak in the first two months of the season, before finally being defeated by Swindon Wildcats away from home in their first meeting of the year.

A mixed January included the loss of veteran defenseman Mark Williams, who returned to Romford, but culminated in a convincing 8-2 win in front of 2, 124 fans was a fitting result to end a game in which Jozef Kohut returned with the Swindon Wildcats.

Di Canio has stated that he will get a Swindon tattoo if he guides them to win the League in his first season in charge.

Used mainly as a substitute during 1997 – 98, it took him 12 games to register his first goal for the club, scoring in a 2 – 0 win at Swindon Town on 7 February 1998.

On 18 September 2010, Péricard scored first goal for Swindon which turns out to be a winning goal in a 2-1 win over Walsall.

" On 11 October 2010, Péricard scored first goal for Swindon which turns out to be a winning goal in a 2-1 win over Bristol Rovers.

Kishishev then made his Brighton debut in Brighton's opening day of the season 2-1 win over Swindon Town.

In his first month at Leeds, the club did not win a game, until a 1 – 0 victory on 1 March against Swindon Town.

He continued to be a regular squad member in 1992 – 93 and began the 1993 – 94 season in style with a great curled goal in a 5 – 0 win at Swindon Town, but Graeme Souness allowed him to leave within days of that goal when he joined West Ham United as a makeweight ( along with David Burrows ) in the deal that took Julian Dicks to Anfield.

After playing the first two games under Royle, a 1 – 2 loss on 18 February against Ipswich Town, and a 3 – 1 win against Swindon Town on 23 February, Kinkladze sustained an ankle injury, which sidelined him for a month.

Batty made his debut for Leeds in November 1987 as an 18-year-old during a 4 – 2 win over Swindon Town, and quickly earned a reputation as a fiercely competitive midfielder in the mould of Leeds legend Billy Bremner.

The new manager bagged his first win at the fifth attempt, in a 1 – 0 away victory over Swindon Town, before following it up with his first home victory against Bournemouth, in which Leeds beat the relegation-threatened side 2 – 0.

A few days after his death, Swindon dedicated their 4 – 0 win over Notts County to the young player, with Davis's mother making a speech in front of the Swindon fans before the kick-off.

He made his debut in a 4 – 1 Division One win against Oxford United and scored his first goal for Manchester City three weeks later against his former club Swindon.

They fell a point short, finishing third, ensuring that Jackett and Millwall returned to the play-off final, against Swindon Town where a goal from their captain Paul Robinson secure a 1-0 win and promotion to The Championship ; it was the first time in Millwall's history that they had won promotion via the play-offs.