Railways
Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Box Tunnel
The incredible engineering feat of the Brunel Box Tunnel in Wiltshire is humbling when you realise amongst other things that it was constructed by candlelight….
Read MoreOil Production and Supply an Intriguing History
When was it that oil was thought to have a large scale economic value and how is this linked to the near extinction of the sperm whale?
Read MoreUK’s 1st Nuclear powered Submarine Dreadnought footage1963
Why did we build the UK’s first Nuclear Submarine in Barrow and why is the answer down to our Victorian Ancestors? Share your views, information and insights or connections…
Read MoreHistory Repeating – Proposed New Euston Station
Another possible redevelopment of Euston Station?
Read MoreThe first railway terminus at Euston 1837
Euston station was the first mainline station to be built in London. In July 1837, the London and Birmingham Railway opened it’s first terminus. It was to have been built at Camden at Chalk Farm but it was proposed that that it should be brought closer to the metropolis and an Act of parliament in…
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