Thomas Evans Blackwell
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Thomas Evans Blackwell was an English civil engineer.
Blackwell pictured in 1861
The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was an early railway company in south-western England. It obtained an act of Parliament giving powers to build the line in 1845 to build a railway from near Ch
Thomas Evans Blackwell
…successfully avoided the scheme by purchasing the waterway. Blackwell was employed as resident engineer on the Bradford and Bathampton branch of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, but left the role upon the railway's amalgamation with GWR. Between 1843 and 1844, he was responsible for the canal between Bath and Devizes and oversaw…
Frome station and roof in 2016
Trowbridge station in 1908
A modern train at Bradford-on-Avon
Bradford on Avon station in 1897