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Guyers I ne (Corsham), 123 Great Western Railway, 15, 17, 18, 49, 70, 82, 189, 191 Air Ministry loop, 191,193 Box tunnel, agreement with War Office re storage of ammunition near, 32 Shortage of locomotives, 192... [Pg.151]

There are also occasional notes of technological excess introduced into his projects to draw attention to themselves. The level of the Great Western railway on its run out of London needed to stay as low as possible for economy and this is made manifest where the line crosses the Thames at Goring. The crowns of the elliptical brick arches of Brunei s bridge are almost un-reasonably thin and he relished both the controversy aroused by the design and the subsequent humiliation of his nay-sayers when vindicated by proving engineers. [Pg.114]

St. Paul, Minn. — Ramsey County Court House and City Hall, Robert Street Bridge, and the Chicago and Great Western Railway Bridge over the Mississippi River, Globe Building. [Pg.187]

Christopher Hinton was born onl2Mayl901inthe school house of the village of Tisbury, Wiltshire, where his father was headmaster of the boys school. He attended the elementary school in Chippenham before moving on to the town secondary school in 1913. He left school in 1917, and unable to afford university, became an apprentice first in Kilmarnock, then the Great Western Railway Company in Swindon. [Pg.24]

The building of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was a major engineering feat when the western portion of the 2,000-mile railroad across the United States was built in the 1860 s. Logistics was a major part of the project, with the need to transport steel rails and wooden ties great distances. An even more formidable task was construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the world s longest railway. It was built from 1891 to 1904 and covers 5,900 miles across Russia, from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east. [Pg.315]


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