The LNWR's main engineering works were at Crewe ( locomotives ), Wolverton ( carriages ) and Earlestown ( wagons ).

These workshops remained in use as a manufacturing facility up until the 1980s ; today just a few parts of the original Wolverton railway works are used solely for rolling stock maintenance and repair.

* Wolverton railway works

Haversham was once a north Buckinghamshire farming village before the building of the railway carriage works at Wolverton in 1833., only Hill Farm, Grange Farm, Field Farm and Crossroads Farm remain as active working farms.

In the 1930s ' new Haversham ' was built on the meadows just above the banks of the River Ouse to house managers working within the rail works at Wolverton.

During the 1980s, the decline of the railway works led to the diminution of Wolverton ’ s tight-knit railway community ; and at the same time to its enrichment via immigration from other parts of the UK and from many parts of the world.

The football ground beside the railway works and the station was home to the works team and subsequently to Wolverton Town football club.

In 2008, units started to go to Wolverton works for refurbishment.

Wolverton College's roots stem back to its association with neighbouring railway works, where it had a reputation for engineering training.

His successor at Wolverton was James McConnell who had previously worked for the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway at their Bromsgrove works.

Wolverton had been set up in 1838 for repair work only, the locomotives being purchased from outside firms, whereas Crewe, from its foundation in 1843, was a locomotive-building works.

Locomotive building and repairing were gradually run down at Wolverton, which became the LNWR's carriage works in 1865.

Train workshop, Wolverton works

Wolverton railway works was established in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in 1838 at the midpoint of the 112 mile-long route from London to Birmingham.

The Victorian era new towns of Wolverton and New Bradwell were built to house the workers and service the works.

In modern times Wolverton railway works remains notable as the home of the British Royal Train.

Old Wolverton railway works with Stephenson bridge

In 1901, Wolverton was the first railway works to use electricity for lighting and driving machinery throughout.

The works is divided from Wolverton itself by a wall that extended almost completely along the front of the town and which still bears visible traces of the paint that was used to camouflage it during the Second World War.

Wolverton became the carriage works, while wagon building was concentrated at Earlestown.

Before the designation of Milton Keynes in 1967, Stony was in Wolverton Urban District, north Buckinghamshire.

Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes ( which is in north Buckinghamshire, England ).

Wolverton is part of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

* St. George the Martyr parish church, New Wolverton, Buckinghamshire: transepts, 1894

* St. George the Martyr Sunday School & Church Institute Building, New Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, 1907 – 08

Wolverton railway station serves northern Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, especially Stony Stratford, Wolverton and New Bradwell.

In 1879 this tree was named after American Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman, by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.

That traffic came to an abrupt end in 1838 when the London to Birmingham Railway ( now the West Coast Main Line ) was opened at Wolverton – ironically, just three years after the bridge over the Ouse had been rebuilt.

Gian was a niece of George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton and she had been Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, a frequent guest at Brocket Hall, and the mother of Queen Mary.

The first Southern Division Locomotive Superintendent was Edward Bury who had been in charge of the London and Birmingham Railway locomotive department at Wolverton since before that railway opened.

In 2007 Railcare limited, who also own the Wolverton Railway Works site in Milton Keynes, took over operations at St. Rollox, from Alstom, who had originally acquired the works from BREL in the wake of the railway privatisation.

The first purpose built houses were constructed in 1854-1856 as dwellings for workers in the nearby Wolverton works, by 1861 the village had 1, 658 inhabitants and over 4, 000 by 1906.

Mercedes-Benz changed their name to Milton Keynes City in 1998, and moved into Wolverton Park, which had been the home of Wolverton until their demise six years earlier.

Wolverton was fields before 1838 and had a population of 1, 500 by 1844.

Today, the site of the medieval village is bisected by the Grand Union Canal: the name " Old Wolverton " has been given to the area east of the canal and that to the west ( which includes the watermill site ) is called Wolverton Mill.

In March 2005, No. 456006 was hauled away to Wolverton where it has been studied for corrosion assessment.

Since December 2010, The 465s have been returned to Slade Green Depot on a weekly basis and sent up to Wolverton on this basis as well.

An unconfirmed therory suggests that the bombs may have been aimed at Wolverton Works, which was involved at the time in the highly camouflaged war work.

The locomotive workshops were established in 1838 at Wolverton, roughly half-way between the two termini at London and Birmingham.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

which featured Mad stalwart Sergio Aragonés and frequent cover art by Basil Wolverton, but was less slavish in its Mad mimicry, relying more on one-page gags and horror-based comedy.

Manuscripts are blind-judged ( with names deleted ), and are separated out in quarterfinal and semifinal award rounds by the Coordinating Judge ( currently K. D. Wentworth, previously Dave Wolverton during much of the 1990s, and originally Algis Budrys ).

The bridge was a twin to another covered bridge built in 1857 by Silas Wolverton that was located 200 ft ( 61 m ) to the west of the Lime Valley Covered Bridge.

Some scholars regard the resultant blur as " hardly aleatory, since exact pitches are carefully controlled and any two performances will be substantially the same " ( Rosner and Wolverton 2001 ) although, according to another writer, this technique is essentially the same as that later used by Witold Lutosławski ( Fisher 2010 )

The original concept name and design of Human Potential began in the aftermath of the failed prophecies of Armstrong as outlined in 1975 in Prophecy !, written by Armstrong and illustrated by Basil Wolverton.

* Locomotives of the LNWR Southern Division, London & Birmingham Railway & Wolverton Locomotive Works by Harry Jack ( 2001 ) ISBN 0-901115-89-4

Lena was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry, ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton.

For a hundred years ( 1867 to 1967 ) Great Linford was served by Great Linford railway station on the Wolverton to Newport Pagnell branch line.

He was survived by his second wife, Judy Wolverton, whom he married a year before he died, and by his four children from his first marriage, to Jeanne Simpson Hyde, which lasted from 1947 until her death, in 1992.

From about 1648, Stony Stratford was divided between the ecclesiastic parishes of Calverton and Wolverton, and covered by two chapelries, St Giles, attached to Calverton, and St Mary Magdalen, attached to Wolverton.

The desertion of Old Wolverton was due to enclosure of the large strip cultivation fields into small " closes " by the local landlords, the Longville family, who turned arable land over to pasture.

* Wolverton Words at the Living Archive project: Accents in Wolverton / New Bradwell and how they have changed between the generations, playground games, and memories of older Wolvertonians, as collected by Year 7 children at Bushfield Middle School

On My Way to Paradise is a novel by Dave Wolverton and was published in 1989 by Bantam Books.