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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Snow Hill railway station, Birmingham , Dash The Station Dog, Samuel Morton Peto, and 2 others

Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

A History of the Great Western Railway Construction of the Great Western Railway line to Snow Hill began in 1847. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was engineer in charge and the contractors were Peto and Betts. By 1852 the 129 mile track from Paddington via Oxford was complete - 7' 0" broad gauge to Oxford 4

' 8½" narrow gauge from there to Birmingham with a third rail provided for the 7' 0" track. Narrow gauge became standard for the whole country in 1892. Signals were hand operated by railway police. Th

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