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A GWR 4073 Class locomotive waits to depart, adjacent to Brunel's cast-iron bridge (April 1962). In 2003 while researching a book about the station, Steven Brindle, Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage (London region), discovered that Isambard Kingdom Brunel was responsible for the original Bishop's Bridge, [1] and that the section he built over the canal was his first iron ...
The Brunel Times is Brunel University's official student newspaper. Before 2019, it was called Le Nurb, [51] which has Brunel spelt backwards. Before that, it was a magazine called Route 66, named after the different campus locations Runneymede, Osterley, Uxbridge and Twickenham, not after a bus route which supposedly ran through Brunel's ...
Lenco AG was founded in 1946 in Burgdorf, Switzerland by married couple Fritz Laeng and Marie Laeng-Stucki, with Bruno Grütter.In 1925 Fritz had set up and run Radio Laeng, a shop selling and renting radios in complete and kit form.
Brunel's original railway bridge over the Wye at Chepstow, before its 1962 replacement. Chepstow Railway Bridge was built to the instructions of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1852. The "Great Tubular Bridge" over the River Wye at Chepstow , which at that point forms the boundary between Wales and England, is considered one of Brunel's major ...
The type enabled the replacement of previously double-headed Class 33 Type 3s in the South East region, as well as Classes 20, 26, 27, 31 and 73. [17] The relatively youthful Class 58 fleet were also cascaded from the coal traffic they had been the staple of. [6] During March 1993, the final locomotive of the class was accepted into traffic. [6]
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (/ ˈ ɪ z ə m b ɑːr d ˈ k ɪ ŋ d ə m b r uː ˈ n ɛ l / IZZ-əm-bard KING-dəm broo-NELL; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859 [1]) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer [2] who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", [3] "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", [4] and "one of the greatest ...
[150] [204] West of Essex County Road 42 on the west of Tilbury, the highway has been widened to six lanes with a concrete divider in anticipation of the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray Parkway. [ 183 ] [ 205 ] As of 2022 the MTO has initiated studies on widening 118 km of the freeway from four to six lanes between Tilbury and London through four contracts.