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The brilliance of Brunel
Mark Prigg, Technology Correspondent31 Mar 2009
The brilliance of Brunel
In 1833, Isambard Kingdom Brunel became chief engineer of the Great Western Railway, running from London to Bristol.
He built dozens of rail bridges. The Maidenhead rail bridge, over the Thames in Berkshire, was the widest brick arch bridge in the world. It still carries mainline trains.
Brunel also constructed the Thames tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
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It's just like the NHS nowadays.
More and more of the money just gets dissipated with Reports, Committees, Plans, then more Reports, legal teams, bean-counters, bureaucracy of all sorts, without a single useful thing being done.
I wonder how many hundreds of millions of pounds have been wasted on such Reports? When simply re-connecting the stations would have cost no more.
- Alex Mckenna, Manchester, 31/03/2009 23:36
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No dispute with IK Brunel being brilliant. It's just such a shame those at the helm these days range from mediocre to incompetent (a bit like the Government at the moment really)
- Marianne, SW France, 31/03/2009 10:01
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