The Great Western Railway name was first used in 1833 with trains brought onto the new network in 1838. Under the direction of the 29 year-old engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Great Western ...

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL:I was to be chief engineer on a brand new railway, the Great Western Railway. ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL:It was to be a new kind of track to take a new kind of train.

The boulders, which turned out to be made of sandstone, were preserved by Brunel himself and remained near the site of the ...

he went on to other challenges and even greater achievements… George Clark is an engineer who has been working with Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the building of the Great Western Railway.

Isambard was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) and Sophia Kingdom (d ... He is best known as the designer of the Clifton suspension bridge near Bristol and engineer of the Great Western ...

along with his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s, an engineer famed for his work on the tunnel. Isambard was also appointed as ...