| Description | Brunel hopes to be at Liverpool on Saturday morning 'and shall try hard to persuade you to cross again'. He mentions the smooth running of railway carriages, a 'false alarm' at the Hanwell embankment, and a railway crash involving a return engine and train, (the North Star) and some earth wagons, describing the slight damage to the engine.
Addressed to: TR Guppy Esq, Kent St, Liverpool
A full transcript of this letter can be found in Adrian Vaughan, 'The Intemperate Engineer', (Ian Allen Publishing, 2010), p.120. Vaughan comments that this letter refers to the half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway shareholders due to be held on 15 August 1838. |