British people in rail transport - Livres de poche

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Chapters: George Stephenson, Marc Isambard Brunel, Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey, Robert Stephenson, Everard Calthrop, James Cudworth, Joseph Locke, Sam Fay, George Bradshaw, Wilbert Awdry, Charles Blacker Vignoles, William James, Ivan Stedeford, George Hudson, Oliver Bulleid, George Turnbull, Charles Douglas Fox, Nigel Gresley, H. C. Casserley, Charles Fox, Edward Thompson, James Henry Greathead, James Stirling, Charles Vincent Walker, George Jackson Churchward, Benjamin Outram, Alfred Balfour, Alexander Brogden, Ivo Peters, John Urpeth Rastrick, Edward Betts, Robert Riddles, Peter Bruff, John Jay, Eustace Missenden, Chris Green, Edward Bury, Edward John Cotton, William Cubitt, Joseph Treffry, William Mackenzie, Harold Holcroft, Harrison Hayter, Alfred Lamert Dickens, John Axon, Iain Coucher, James Brogden, Thomas Elliot Harrison, Isaac Wilson, William Kelly Wallace, J. P. Knight, Nicholas Wood, George Tosh, William Kirtley, James Foster, Patrick Whitehouse, Thomas Shaw Brandreth, Huntingdon Beaumont, William Beckett, Claude W. Kinder, Sarah Guppy, R. J. Billinton, William Moorsom, Robert Davidson, William Dean, Archibald Sturrock, John Curr, John Marshall, Robert Gillespie Reid, Thomas Edmondson, Thomas Gray, Richard Maunsell, Arthur Peppercorn, Thomas Longridge Gooch, John Ramsbottom, Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, James Pearson, Herbert William Garratt, Philippa Roles, Archibald Jack, Charles Bowen Cooke, Thomas Grainger, Joseph Whitehead, Charles Osmond Frederick, John Birkinshaw, Henry Brogden, Patrick Stirling, Richard Mansell, Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park, Miles Beevor, Henry Givens Burgess, James Kennedy, William Baker, Francis Dunnell, Sir Albert Bowen, 1st Baronet, Oliver Robert Hawke Bury, Richard Bowker, Magnus Volk, Henry Oakley, L. B. Billinton, Edward Pease, Harley Dalrymple-Hay, Walter Hampson, John Brogden Jun., John Chester Craven, Guy Calthrop, John Waddell, Beauchamp Tower, Gilbert Szlumper, George Whale, Donald Campbell, Edward Entwistle, Thomas Savin, James Thompson Marshall, John Miller, R. G. Jarvis, George Henry Wood, John Wallace Pringle, Leo Daft, Benjamin Connor, W. H. Austen, Joseph Cubitt. Excerpt: Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 - 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. This included three-quarters of the lines in France, major lines in many other European countries and in Canada, Australia, South America and India. He also built the structures associated with those railways, including docks, bridges, viaducts, stations, tunnels and drainage works. As well as railway engineering, Brassey was active in the development of steamships, mines, locomotive factories, marine telegraphy, and water supply and sewage systems. He built part of the London sewerage system, still in operation today, and was a major shareholder in Brunel's The Great Eastern, the only ship large enough at the time to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable across the North Atlantic, in 1864. The Brassey family traced themselves back to a Norman ancestor from the town of Brécey in Lower Normandy who crossed to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. Initially their home...