History & General Studies
BOURNE, John C.
The History and Description of the Great Western Railway
Historic J C Bourne drawings of the Great Western Railway published in 1846. The plates illustrate stations, infrastructure and scenes along the route of the railway. A facsimile was produced in 1969 on high quality art paper in elephant folio size.
BRECKON, Don
Don Breckon's Great Western Railway
Landscape format portfolio of paintings accompanied by Breckon's narrative on the subject and occasion. The original edition was published in 1986 as a fine large format work, with a smaller "compressed" edition in 1992.
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BRUNEL, Isambard
The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer [1870]
Biography of Brunel written by one of his sons in 1870. Detailed accounts of work with the GWR including infrastructure and broad gauge, the atmospheric railway, ships and dock design. The work was reprinted with an introduction by L.T.C. Rolt in 1971.
BRYAN, Tim
The Golden Age of the Great Western Railway 1895 - 1914
Survey of the GWR at the beginning of the twentieth century with narrative supported by photographs and ephemera throughout. Divided into parts covering Paddington; Swindon; The Cornish Riviera; The South Wales Main Line; and the Birmingham Route.