| Description | Letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to C Russell concerning the Great Western Railway: expenses, salary and duties as engineer, including construction of new lines, supervision of every engineering or mechanical department, maintenance, station, locomotives, permanent way, carriages, assistants, contracts, system of payment for and work on the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, Wiltshire and Somerset Railway, Oxford and Rugby Railway, and Oxford Branch Railway, contractors and expenditure. |