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Brassey, Thomas

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Brassey, Thomas (1805–1870)

English railway contractor. Among his chief contracts were the Great Northern Railway (1847–51) and railways in France, Italy, Canada, Australia, and India.

He was born near Chester, Cheshire, and began life as a surveyor, based in Birkenhead, now in Merseyside. He undertook a contract for railway work, and in a few years was at the head of a great undertaking which carried out contracts in all parts of the world.
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