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BRUNEL’S BROAD GAUGE RAILWAY
Commemorating the centenary of the GWRs gauge conversion
Christopher Awdry
Condemned to death, 1846, executed 1892! 46 years in the death cell is a long time. Why? Andwhy did Brunel Brunel suggest 7-feet as a gauge of the Great Western Railway? These are just two questions this book sets out to answer, exactly a century after the final conversion from broad to standard gauge took place
Brunel’s broad gauge railway traces the history of the Broad gauge from its inception, through the engineers problems with discomfited shareholders, and into the reasons for the appointment of a parliamentary commission to discuss the whole question of railway gauges. The repercussions are discussed, with the latest decision in Parliament which now the Broad gauge to continue expansion-the last line was opened no less than 31 years later, in 1877! A chapter about the stock which was operated on the system comes next followed by ‘how’ and ‘when’ of the gradual dismemberment, an operation which took a great deal longer than most people realise. Would we, the author asks still have railway today, had the Broad gauge not been abolished when it was? Who can say, but he has a theory which may come as a surprise
The author, who’s great-grandfather, as vice chairman of Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth railway, must have worked with Brunel, has found this book fascinated to compile. He has worked in the railway history field for many years, including compiling The Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies but wearing his other ‘uniform’ as it were, also attempts to keep Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends family on the rails…
In very good condition. Bought and just used as part of a collection. Never read
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