The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S. Etc. Etc: Late President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 1Longmans, 1866 |
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... Birmingham Railway - Bill passes Parliament in 1833 - Robert Stephenson appointed sole Engineer - in - Chief to the London and Birmingham Railway- Leaves Newcastle - on - Tyne - Pupils 138 - CHAPTER X. CONSTRUCTION OF THE LONDON AND ...
... Birmingham Railway - Bill passes Parliament in 1833 - Robert Stephenson appointed sole Engineer - in - Chief to the London and Birmingham Railway- Leaves Newcastle - on - Tyne - Pupils 138 - CHAPTER X. CONSTRUCTION OF THE LONDON AND ...
Page xiii
... Birmingham Railway , and Labour expended on the Great Pyramid Conduct of a certain Section of the Directors to Robert Stephenson -Opening of the Line - Dinner at Dee's Royal Hotel , Manchester – Robert Stephenson's Anger with a Director ...
... Birmingham Railway , and Labour expended on the Great Pyramid Conduct of a certain Section of the Directors to Robert Stephenson -Opening of the Line - Dinner at Dee's Royal Hotel , Manchester – Robert Stephenson's Anger with a Director ...
Page 138
... Birmingham Railway - Bill passes Parliament in 1833 - Robert Stephenson appointed sole Engineer - in - Chief to the London and Birmingham Railway- Leaves Newcastle - on - Tyne - Pupils . - - ROBERT STEPHENSON'S wedding trip was a short ...
... Birmingham Railway - Bill passes Parliament in 1833 - Robert Stephenson appointed sole Engineer - in - Chief to the London and Birmingham Railway- Leaves Newcastle - on - Tyne - Pupils . - - ROBERT STEPHENSON'S wedding trip was a short ...
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... Birmingham , but at the outset only intended taking it up as far as Sandbach , a distance of twenty - two miles from War- rington ; the remaining distance to Birmingham is , I believe , about 53 miles . Should this line go on , it will ...
... Birmingham , but at the outset only intended taking it up as far as Sandbach , a distance of twenty - two miles from War- rington ; the remaining distance to Birmingham is , I believe , about 53 miles . Should this line go on , it will ...
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... Birmingham . The route of the proposed railway was surveyed in 1825 , but in those hard times for speculative enterprise the project was set aside . The year 1830 , however , witnessed two proposals , instead of one , for an iron road ...
... Birmingham . The route of the proposed railway was surveyed in 1825 , but in those hard times for speculative enterprise the project was set aside . The year 1830 , however , witnessed two proposals , instead of one , for an iron road ...
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