Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles ...: Soldier and Civil Engineer, Formerly Lieutenant in H.M. 1st Royals, Past-president of Institution of Civil Engineers; a Reminiscence of Early Railway HistoryThis memoir of the life and work of the late Mr C.B. Vignoles is in three sections: his life of adventure as an officer in the British Army; his work as one of the small group of civil engineers engaged in the construction of the earliest railways in England and Ireland; and his foreign engineering work. |
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... schemes - The ' Vignoles Rail ' -Appointed consulting engineer of Eastern Counties Railway - Reminiscences of this line - Rival pro- jects of London and Brighton Railway - Early surveys in Wales and Ireland for the first Irish Railway ...
... schemes - The ' Vignoles Rail ' -Appointed consulting engineer of Eastern Counties Railway - Reminiscences of this line - Rival pro- jects of London and Brighton Railway - Early surveys in Wales and Ireland for the first Irish Railway ...
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... scheme of my more rational hours - to lay myself out on my arrival in America to make my superior officers my friends . ' Still , he is evidently afraid of the possible results of ' hours of idleness , ' for he adds : If we shall only ...
... scheme of my more rational hours - to lay myself out on my arrival in America to make my superior officers my friends . ' Still , he is evidently afraid of the possible results of ' hours of idleness , ' for he adds : If we shall only ...
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... scheme for Parliament . It was a prodigious Createth + Hall LIVERPOOL Kirby Moss STHELENS Trescot LANC BRENIKAD TortedPurk Pendleton HIRE Ecoto Cha MANCHESTER Mersey . Hale ORONCORN RIVER MERSE DISTANT FROM THE RAIL ROAD . ORMSKIRK 8 ...
... scheme for Parliament . It was a prodigious Createth + Hall LIVERPOOL Kirby Moss STHELENS Trescot LANC BRENIKAD TortedPurk Pendleton HIRE Ecoto Cha MANCHESTER Mersey . Hale ORONCORN RIVER MERSE DISTANT FROM THE RAIL ROAD . ORMSKIRK 8 ...
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... scheme , as well as his brief connection with that eminent man . But it may be mentioned that Vignoles was examined at considerable length in the Committee of the House of Lords in April 1826 , when application was made to Parliament ...
... scheme , as well as his brief connection with that eminent man . But it may be mentioned that Vignoles was examined at considerable length in the Committee of the House of Lords in April 1826 , when application was made to Parliament ...
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... scheme which Vignoles " The two engraved plans for the Bill of 1826 in the London and North- Western Company's offices at Euston are countersigned by Charles Vignoles ' as the surveyor for the Messrs . Rennie . The writer has searched ...
... scheme which Vignoles " The two engraved plans for the Bill of 1826 in the London and North- Western Company's offices at Euston are countersigned by Charles Vignoles ' as the surveyor for the Messrs . Rennie . The writer has searched ...
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