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Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway

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By his death the greatest of England’s engineers was lost, the man with the greatest originality of thought and power of execution, bold in his plans but right. The commercial world thought him extravagant; but although he was so, things are not done by those who sit down to count the cost of every thought and act.

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