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brunel.ac.uk. Brunel University London (BUL, and often known simply as Brunel) is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. In June 1966, Brunel College of Advanced Technology was ...
The Brentford branch line, also known as the Brentford Dock Line, is a freight-only branch railway line in west London, England. The route, which opened in 1859, was backed by the Great Western Railway and built by the Great Western & Brentford Railway Company. It ran 4 mi (6.4 km) from Southall to Brentford Dock.
Windsor Railway Bridge is a wrought iron ' bow and string ' bridge in Windsor, Berkshire, crossing the River Thames on the reach between Romney Lock and Boveney Lock. It carries the branch line between Slough and Windsor. The Windsor Railway Bridge was designed by the famed British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and is considered to be ...
Bristol–Exeter line. The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Swansea. The GWML is presently a part of the national rail system managed by Network Rail while the ...
The dock was constructed to a design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The entrance to the dock was via a lock from the River Thames. The company also built the Brentford Branch Line to it from the GWR main line at Southall, which was originally at 7 ft gauge and terminated at the dock. Construction began in 1855 and was completed in 1859.
Designated. 26 January 1970; 54 years ago (1970-01-26) Reference no. 1002020. Location of Three Bridges in London Borough of Ealing. Three Bridges, formally known as Windmill Bridge, is a three-level crossing of bridges in Southall, west London, England. [1] The project was Brunel's last to be finished before he died on 15 September 1859.
The Brunel University lecture centre is a Grade II listed building on the campus of Brunel University London, Uxbridge. It contains six large lecture halls with capacities of 160 to 200 people each, as well as smaller teaching rooms and lecture halls with capacities of 60 to 80. It was built in the mid-1960s in a brutalist style, using mostly ...
The Uxbridge branch after 1936. Uxbridge had enjoyed the benefit to its trade of a location on the London to Oxford coach route before the railway came. This led interests in the town to oppose the routing of railways through the town, and an 1829 proposed line to Birmingham (not actually built), and then the Great Western Railway main line were designed to avoid the town, and accordingly the ...