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unusual facts about West Drayton



Colne Brook

On leaving the Colne at Uxbridge Moor in the Colne Valley regional park, the Colne Brook flows close by to the west until West Drayton then passes under the M25 motorway at the M4 "Thorney interchange", enters Berkshire and flows through the village of Colnbrook.

GWR Charles Tayleur locomotives

:This locomotive was the first to run on the Great Western Railway when it was tested on 28 December 1837 from its shed at West Drayton.

Scania N112

The N112 was also built as an airport shuttle bus with Van Hool Alizee coach body and DAF Variomatic transmission, and in this form Capital Coaches of West Drayton ordered 23 on behalf of the British Airports Authority (BAA) at Heathrow in 1987, while Terminus Securities Ltd took one in 1988 for work at Gatwick.

The National Museum of Computing

The museum also includes the world's oldest working digital computer (the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH), machines from the 1960s such as the Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, a wide range of analogue computers, a hands-on retrocomputing gallery, and several restoration projects such as the PDP-8 and the PDP-11-based air traffic control system from London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton near London.


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