List of structures built by Thomas Brassey

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Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 - 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways in the 19th century. For some of these constructions he was the sole contractor but he usually worked in partnership with other contractors, particularly Peto and Betts.

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[edit] Railways and associated structures

Brassey arranged the building of over 8,500 miles of railway tracks. He was involved with building one in three of all the miles of railway built in the United Kingdom and in one in twenty of the miles of railway built in the world. The following is an incomplete list of his projects. The dates given are the dates of the contracts.

[edit] Railway lines

[edit] Great Britain
  • Grand Junction Railway (part) (1834) 10 miles
  • London and Southampton Railway (part) (1837) 36 miles
  • Chester and Crewe Railway (1839) 11 miles
  • Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway (part) (1839) 7 miles
  • Sheffield and Manchester Railway (1839) 19 miles
  • Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (1844) 70 miles
  • Colchester and Ipswich Railway (1844) 16 miles
  • Trent Valley Railway (1845) 50 miles
  • Ipswich and Bury Railway (1845) 24½ miles
  • Chester and Holyhead Railway (1845) 31 miles
  • Kendal and Windermere Railway (1845) 12 miles
  • North Wales Mineral Extension Railway (1845) 5 miles
  • Caledonian Railway (First contract) (1845) 125 miles
  • Clydesdale Junction Railway (1845) 15 miles
  • Scottish Midland Junction Railway (1845) 33 miles
  • Scottish Central Railway (1845) 46 miles
  • Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Maintenance) (1846) 93 miles
  • Ormskirk Railway (1846) 30 miles
  • Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (1846) 25 miles
  • Mineral Line (Wales) (1846) 6½ miles
  • Buckinghamshire Railway (1847) 47½ miles
  • Birkenhead and Chester Junction Railway (1847) 17½ miles
  • Haughley and Norwich Railway (1847) 33 miles
  • Great Northern Railway (1847) 75½ miles
  • North Staffordshire Railway (1847) 48 miles
  • Shrewsbury Extension Railway (1847) 3 miles
  • Blackwall Extension Railway (1847) 1¾ miles
  • Richmond and Windsor Railway (1847) 16½ miles
  • Oswestry Branch Railway (1848) 2 miles
  • London and Southampton Railway Loop line (1848) 7 miles
  • Glasgow and Barhead Railway (1848) 11 miles
  • Royston and Hitchin Railway (1849) 13 miles
  • Shepwreth Extension Railway (1850) 5 miles
  • North and South-Western Junction Railway (1850) 4 miles
  • Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (1851) 51 miles
  • Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway (1852) 30 miles
  • London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (1852) 50 miles which linked with Victoria Docks (see below)
  • Warrington and Stockport Railway (1852) 12 miles
  • North Devon Railway (1852) 47 miles
  • Crystal Palace and West-end Railway (1853)
  • Arpley Branch Railway (1854) 1½ miles
  • Woodford and Loughton Railway (1854) 7½ miles
  • East Suffolk Railway (1855) 63 miles
  • Inverness and Nairn Railway (1855) 16 miles
  • Portsmouth Direct Railway (1855) 33 miles
  • Woodbridge Extension Railway (1856) 10 miles
  • Leicester and Hitchin Railway (1857) 62½ miles
  • Leominster and Kington Railway (1857) 14 miles
  • Leatherhead, Epsom and Wimbledon Railway (1858) 10 miles
  • Worcester and Hereford Railway (1858) 26½ miles
  • Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway (1858) 22 miles
  • Cannock Mineral Railway (1859) 10 miles
  • Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway (1859) 32½ miles
  • Denny Branches (1859) 3 miles
  • Salisbury and Yeovil Railway (1860) 40 miles
  • Wooferton and Tenbury Railway (1860) 5 miles
  • Wenlock Railway, (1860) 4 miles
  • Portpatrick Railway (1861) 17 miles
  • Stokes Bay Pier and Branch Railway (1860) 2 miles
  • Harleston and Beccles Railway (1860) 13 miles
  • Disley and Hayfield Railway (1861) 3½ miles
  • Knighton Railway (1861) 12 miles
  • Nuneaton and Hinckley Railway (1861) 5 miles
  • Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (widening) (1861) 51 miles
  • West London Railway (Extension) (1861) 9 miles
  • Severn Valley Railway (1861)
  • South Staffordshire Railway (1861) 4 miles
  • Ringwood and Christchurch Railway (1862) 8 miles
  • Kingston Extension Railway (1862) 4 miles
  • Cannock Chase Railway (1862) 3 miles
  • Coalbrookdale Railway (1862) 5 miles
  • Ashchurch and Evesham Railway (1862) 11 Miles
  • Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (1862) 11 miles
  • South Leicester Railway (1862) 10 miles
  • Tenbury and Bewdley Railway (1862) 12 miles
  • Wenlock and Craven Arms Railway (1862) 14 miles
  • Ludlow and Clee Hill Railway (1862) 6 miles
  • Llangollen Railway (1862) 6 miles
  • Epping and Ongar Railway (1863) 13 miles
  • Runcorn Branch Railway (1863) 9 miles
  • Tendring Hundred Railway (1863) 3 miles
  • Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge Railway (1863) 48 miles
  • Epping Railway (1864) 12 miles
  • Dunmow Railway (1864) 18 miles
  • Corwen and Bala Railway (1864) 14 miles
  • Wellington and Market Drayton Railway (1864) 16 miles
  • Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway (1864) 36 miles
  • Chertsey Extension Railway (1865) 3 miles
  • Evesham and Redditch Railway (1865) 18 miles
  • East London Railway (1865) 2½ miles
  • Hull and Doncaster Railway (1865) 16 miles
  • Hereford Loop Railway (1865) 2½ miles
  • Hooton and Parkgate Railway (1865) 5 miles
  • London and Bedford Railway (1865) 36½ miles
  • Llangollen and Corwen Railway (1865) 10 miles
  • Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (Widening) (1865) 11 miles
  • Ebbw Vale Railway (1866) 2 miles
  • Kensington and Richmond Railway (and Spurs) (1866) 7 miles
  • Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway (1866) 4 miles
  • Moreton Hampstead Railway (1866) 12 miles
  • Bala and Dolgelly Railway (1866) 18 miles
  • Sirhowy Railway (1867) 2 miles
  • Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway (1867) 7½ miles
  • Silverdale Railway (1868) 13½ miles

[edit] France

75 per cent of the total mileage, including:

[edit] Elsewhere in Europe
  • Barcelona and Mataró Railway, Spain (1848) 18 miles
  • Prato and Pistoja Railway Italy (1850) 10 miles
  • Norwegian Railway, Norway (1851) 56 miles
  • Dutch Rhenish Railway, Holland, 1852 43 miles
  • Turin and Novara Railway, Italy (1853) 60 miles
  • Royal Danish Railway, Denmark (1853) 75 miles
  • Central Italian Railway (1854) 52 miles
  • Turin and Susa Railway, Italy (1854) 34 miles
  • Elizabeth-Linz Railway, Austria (1856) 49 miles
  • Bilbao and Miranda Railway, Spain (1858) 66 miles
  • Victor Emmanuel Railway, Italy (1859) 73 miles
  • Ivrea Railway, Italy (1859) 19 miles
  • Jutland Railway, Denmark (1860) 270 miles
  • Maremma, Leghorn &c. Railway, Italy (1860) 138 miles
  • North Schleswig Railway, Denmark (1863) 70 miles
  • Lemberg Czernowitz Railway, Austrian Empire (now Ukraine) (1864) 165 miles
  • Viersen-Venlo Railway, now in Germany to Netherlands, (1864) 11 miles
  • Warsaw and Terespol Railway, Poland (1865) 128 miles
  • Kronprinz-Rudolfsbahn Railway, (1867) 272 miles
  • Czernitz Suczawa Railway, Austrian Empire (now Ukraine)(1867) 60 miles
  • Vorarlbergbahn, Austria (1870) 55 miles
  • Suczawa and Jassy Railway, Romania (1870) 135 miles

[edit] Canada

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia
  • Great Northern, Great Eastern and Great Southern Railways, New South Wales (1859) 54 miles
  • Queensland Railway (1863) 78 miles

[edit] India
  • Eastern Bengal Railway (1858) 112 miles
  • Delhi Railway (1864) 247 miles
  • Chord Line (1865) 147 miles

[edit] Mauritius

[edit] Tunnels

[edit] Stations

Many hundreds, including:

  • Trent Valley Stations (1847)
  • Chester (1848) which had the longest platforms in the country at the time of its opening
  • Caledonian Railway Stations and Maintenance (1848)
  • Shrewsbury (1848)
  • Salisbury (1859)
  • Nantwich

[edit] Viaducts and other structures

Many, including:

  • Penkridge viaduct (1837) on the Grand Junction Railway
  • Malaunay viaduct (1844) on the Paris to Le Havre railway
  • Mirville Viaduct (1844) on the Paris to Le Havre railway
  • Brantham Cutting, Manningtree (1845)
  • Austreberth Bridge (1847) on the Paris to Le Havre railway
  • Cefn Mawr viaduct (1848) on the Chester to Shrewsbury railway
  • Chirk Viaduct (1859)
  • Welwyn (or Digswell) Viaduct

[edit] Bridges

Again a large number, including:

[edit] Non-railway projects

[edit] References

  • Helps, Arthur The Life and Works of Mr Brassey, 1872 republished Nonsuch, 2006. pages 106-114 ISBN 1845880110
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