BRUNEL, ISAMBARD KINGDOM #

Railway and naval engineer, of London, for whom see Oxford DNB. Brunel, an advocate of broad-gauge railways, was engineer to the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow & Dublin Railway from 1847 or earlier until 1856, and engineer-in-chief to the Cork & Waterford Railway from 1847 or earlier until 1853 or later. As engineer to the Dublin & Wicklow Railway, he designed the Bray Head railway tunnel, circa 1855.

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All information in this entry is from Jones's transcripts from Thom's directories and from G.R. Powell, Official Railway Handbook (1860), 31.

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