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 ...

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

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.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is best known for creating the Great Western Railway.This walking stick belonged to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Engineer of the Great Western Railway. It is an unusual object ...

Isambard was the son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) and Sophia Kingdom (d ... designer of the Clifton suspension bridge near Bristol and engineer of the Great Western Railway including some ...

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