What railway station did IK Brunel build?

Answer 1

Hee was the Great Western Railway's designer credited with the London (Paddington) to Bristol line & on to Penzance. He designed the Saltash Bridge, over the Tamar just W of Plymouth, among many other civil-engineering projects.

Sadly the stress of the problems associated with his s.s. Great Eastern drove him to an early grave, and he only just managed to see the Saltash Bridge opened.

He'd also specified the famous seven-foot gauge but this was eventually driven out of existence by the Standard Gauge (4ft 8-1/2").

One railway he tried but found impracticable was his Atmospheric Railway, near Totnes. It used lightweight passenger cars drawn along the track by a piston in an evacuated tube between the rails; the vacuum being created by pumping-stations at the ends of the line. Its fatal weakness was a longitudinal flap-valve that covered the slot in the tube through which the piston was attached to the car. The only available material was leather, which did not stand up to the weather, work and rodents.

Answer 2

He did not build them he designed the components