Ever After by Graham Swift

Author:Graham Swift [Swift, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780307829832
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1992-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

And then there was the railway. By 1849 it had reached Plymouth, with further track laid in Cornwall. A little matter, in between, of spanning the Tamar estuary at Saltash: it would take ten years. Matthew worked on the Ivybridge-to-Plymouth section and on the projected Tavistock branch line, and, as early as 1848, would have been involved in the preliminary surveys and geological soundings for Brunel’s great Saltash bridge. It was during this time that Matthew himself was first introduced to Brunel (these little glimpses of the great—you can see why Potter is keen) and came under the spell of the engineer’s mixture of practical genius and formidable energy.

18th August 1854:

… I have grasped the meaning of I.K.B.’s perpetual cigars: he must have them, as furnaces must have chimneys—they are lit from within.

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