A Job for Life?
'What's happening now is that a few people in power are robbing this country of our natural heritage - oil, coal, railways, national health - everything.'
The historic Swindon workshops, the heart of Brunei's Great Western
Railway recently joined the growing list of closed factories. Once Swindon's products were world famous, its 14,000 employees justly proud of their skills. Now, having accepted massive redundancies and reorganisation in the long fight to save their works, most survivors will join the dole queues.
Just before the closure was announced, Peter Brown visited Swindon to see what survived of the old GWR spirit. Later he returned to find a bitter and disillusioned workforce.
Producer ANDREW JOHNSTON