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    Moulsford Railway Bridge, also known locally as "Four Arches" bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges located a little to the north of Moulsford and South...
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    in 1994, who lets it out for the filming of Midsomer Murders. Moulsford Railway Bridge, situated just north of the village on the Great Western Main Line...
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    Maidenhead Railway Bridge, also known as Maidenhead Viaduct and The Sounding Arch, carries the Great Western Main Line (GWML) over the River Thames between...
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    Moulsford railway station was on the original route of the Great Western Railway, being one of three intermediate stations provided when the line was extended...
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    The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset...
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    The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. Its unique design consists...
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    arch design, by Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Maidenhead, Gatehampton and Moulsford. The world's first underwater tunnel was the Thames Tunnel by Marc Brunel...
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    Thames Tunnel (category Railway tunnels in London)
    was converted into a railway tunnel for use by the East London line which, since 2010, is part of the London Overground railway network under the ownership...
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    Brunel at Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Gatehampton Railway Bridge and Moulsford Railway Bridge. The world's first underwater tunnel was Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel...
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    Cross Bridge) it is a steel truss railway bridge flanked by two more recent, cable-stayed, pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation...
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    Brunel and was constructed at the same time as Maidenhead Railway Bridge and Moulsford Railway Bridge. It was built between 1838 and 1840, opening later that...
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    Street Bridge Dry docks: SS Great Britain, the Matthew St Augustine's Reach, Pero's Bridge Bathurst Basin Queen Square Bristol Temple Meads railway station...
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  • Faraday) Galbraith Hall (after W R Galbraith, who designed the Kew Railway Bridge) Mill Hall (after John Stuart Mill) There are also three accommodation...
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    Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels...
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    The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a 22.75-mile (36.6 km) heritage railway line in Somerset, England. The freehold of the line and stations is owned by...
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    and Moulsford bridges. Between Chippenham and Bath is Box Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel driven by that time. Several years later, the railway opened...
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    including helping his son, Isambard, with his design of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. In March 1832 William Smith was deposed as chairman of the Thames Tunnel...
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    from Marsh Mills to Plym Bridge is operated as a heritage railway known as the Plym Valley Railway. The Great Western Railway Leo class 2-4-0 was tried...
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    city of Portland, Maine (with additional investment from the Grand Trunk Railway) went so far as to build a $125,000 pier to accommodate the ship. Ultimately...
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    West railway station. For some time this station was on an atmospheric railway. This is often confused with a 550-metre pneumatic passenger railway which...
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    Bristol if the railway from Birmingham was extended. The first station was a temporary terminus for the GWR on the west side of Bishop's Bridge Road, opened...
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    attract future customers from the working classes, the newly expanding railways offered highly discounted tickets for people to travel from distant parts...
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  • Taplow Moulsford Railway Bridge, at Moulsford Nuneham Railway Bridge, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire Osney Rail Bridge, in Oxford Richmond Railway Bridge, in...
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    Bishop's Bridge, sometimes known as Paddington Bridge, is a road bridge in the Paddington district of London which carries Bishop's Bridge Road across...
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    Western Railway Moulsford Railway Bridge Royal Albert Bridge Somerset Bridge Three Bridges, London Usk Bridge Wharncliffe Viaduct Windsor Bridge Tunnels...
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    The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries...
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    Railway, a joint operation of the three railways, which ran between the passenger station and the goods yard, across the street outside on a bridge,...
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    Henry Marc Brunel (category British bridge engineers)
    Barry, with whom he designed the Blackfriars Railway Bridge and (after Sir Horace Jones died) Tower Bridge over the River Thames in central London. Their...
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    station at Cowley Bridge Junction. This line was worked by the B&ER and trains were accommodated at the existing platforms. All these railways were built to...
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    Great Western Main Line (category Railway operators in London)
    to Pangbourne (July 1893), Pangbourne to Cholsey and Moulsford (June 1894), Cholsey and Moulsford to Didcot (December 1892); also short sections between...
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