What year did isambard kingdom brunell start building the great western railway?

Question

What year did isambard kingdom brunell start building the great western railway?

Answer 1

The date that the Great Western Railway was formed as a company (The Bristol Railway ) was 1833, and consisted of 118 miles. the actual building started in 1836. Below is the internet link to Network Rail, who keep the origional plans & drawings in their Archive's. I gather that over the last year to celibrate it being 200 years since his birth that they have had a mobile exibition.

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/3366.a...

Mind on the first page the picture does not open on the web, but the other chapters about Paddington, through to the Royal Albert Bridge Saltmarsh does.

Answer 2

The company was founded in 1833, and Brunel wasn't known for hanging about.

Answer 3

The Great Western Railway Act received Royal Assent on 31st August 1835.

Work started a few months later.

Answer 4

CoCo - surely your dad wasn't around when the GWR was built!

Brunel also designed the Bristol-Exeter railway which linked with the GWR at (you guessed) Bristol Temple Meads and also the South Devon Railway which carried the Broad Guage all the way to the end of England.

Answer 5

1825 or a little later

Answer 6

I think it was 1987.

Answer 7

I think the answer you are looking for is when the construction actually started and not the planning or permissions.  The answer is therefore 1836 when Brunel was 30 years old.