Brunel’s amazing contribution to the nation continues to receive
rightful recognition. Not everything he did turned out to be successful,
however. Blazing a trail meant not being afraid of making mistakes.
Here are two examples on display at the Great Western Society’s
HQ at Didcot Railway Centre which were eventually superseded by more successful
alternatives - broad gauge track and the atmospheric railway, in which trains
were moved by compressed air fed through a pipe laid between the rails.
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