Great Western Main Line
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The Great Western Main Line is a main line railway in England that runs between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and S
Maidenhead Railway Bridge carrying the line over the River Thames
St James Railway Bridge, Bath
Bathpool GWR 158763+158747 Cardiff service
Oxford GWR 165116 leaving for Reading
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose wor
Great Western Main Line
…Great Western Railway franchise. The GWML was built by the original Great Western Railway company between 1838 and 1841, as a dual track line in the 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge. The broad gauge remained in use until 1892, after which standard gauge track has been exclusively used. Between 1877 and 1932…
Brunel by the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett, 1857
Kensal Green Cemetery, designed by Brunel and his father with Augustus Charles Pugin
The two bores of the tunnel in 1870 in The Illustrated London News
Paddington station as published in The Illustrated London News in 1854