Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist,
architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His
astounding feats changed the British landscape, and this new book
tells the story of his awe-inspiring achievements and innovations
as a railway engineer. New to the developing world of railways in
the early 1830s, Brunel soon came to rival George and Robert
Stephenson, as he embarked on what he called ‘the finest work in
England’. The construction of the Great Western Railway, arguably
the most revolutionary of British railways, opened in 1841. Tim
Bryan, Director of the Brunel Institute at the SS Great Britain,
chronicles how, in almost thirty tumultuous years, Brunel created a
rail network covering much of the South and West of England, the
Midlands and Wales. The network included masterpieces like
Paddington Station and the Royal Albert Bridge and still carries
millions of travellers today. The book also describes how
Brunel’s successes were matched by ‘monumental failures’ –
the ill-fated atmospheric system used on the South Devon Railway,
and the far-reaching implications of the broad gauge for his
railways, which ultimately cost millions of pounds when abolished.
Iron, Stone and Steam is also the story of the great engineer’s
complex character and the roles of the people who helped the
creative, and sometimes dictatorial, genius create his railway.
These range from the navvies who built his bridges, tunnels and
lines, to contemporaries like Daniel Gooch, without whom his vision
would never have been fully realised. Above all, this is the story
of Brunel’s vision to create a railway empire like no other.
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