October 1835 the board of the company agreed that the line should be built to the broad gauge of 7 ft 0 ? inches (2.14 m). The main line of the Great Western Railway was completed in 1841. It was memorably

generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding locomotives produced in Europe. He also designed a 2-8-0 freight locomotive of which nearly a thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for the

Anghel Saligny was one of the most distinguished civil engineers in Europe in the late nineteenth century and is particularly celebrated for his pioneering use of reinforced concrete. He was born at S