At Brunel's invitation Froude turned his attention to the stability of ships in a seaway and his 1861 paper to the Institution of Naval Architects became influential in ship design.

Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol

Bermondsey had been host to London's first railway, from Spa Road, as part of the London Bridge to Greenwich line, and the junction of lines from Croydon and Kent at South Bermondsey, the Brunel's Rotherhithe foot-tunnel was converted into part of the East London Railway with original connections from Liverpool Street Station via Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate.

The South Wales Railway had opened between and in 1850 and became connected to the GWR by Brunel's Chepstow Bridge in 1852.

The Tamar Bridge is located above the Hamoaze, and runs parallel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge ( sometimes referred to as the Brunel Bridge ) which opened in 1859 and is considered to be one of his greatest railway achievements.

Downstream of central Bristol the river passes through the deep Avon Gorge, spanned by Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge, the river is tidal and is navigable by sea going vessels at high tide but drying to a steep sided muddy channel at low tide.

* Bristol: Brunel's The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a famous landmark, and the ship, the SS Great Britain is another of Brunel's famous constructions, which is now in dry dock in Bristol.

It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge ; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species.

It passes over Brunel's Maidenhead Railway Bridge ( known locally as the Sounding Arch ), famous for its flat brick arches.

The two central sections of Brunel's bridge are novel adaptations of the design Stephenson employed for the High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1849.

Many were obtained from the suspended works for Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge and others rolled new for Saltash.

With John Hawkshaw, he completed Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge.

* May 2-Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge for the Cornwall Railway at Saltash in England is officially opened.

Saltash is the location of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge, opened by HRH Prince Albert on May 2, 1859.

Clifton is home to many buildings of the University of Bristol, including Goldney Hall ; Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge ; the Roman Catholic Clifton Cathedral ; Christ Church, Clifton Down ; Clifton College ; Clifton High School ; the former Amberley House preparatory school ; Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School, The Clifton Club ; and Bristol Zoo.

In the 19th century the Society helped to fund the building of Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge and members of the society helped to establish the Great Western Railway.

As built, Maidenhead Railway Bridge carried two lines of Brunel's broad gauge track.

The Thames Path stays on the southern bank all the way to Caversham lock, crossing the River Kennet on Horseshoe bridge which is attached to Brunel's Great Western Railway Bridge.

Further along the reach is Brunel's Maidenhead Railway Bridge, known as the " Sounding Bridge " from the spectacular echo underneath it.

* July 14-Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Chepstow Bridge is opened to traffic, completing the South Wales Railway throughout from Gloucester ( England ) to Swansea.

The company notably produced iron work for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the 1850s, and the world's first all-iron warship, HMS Warrior, launched in 1860.

In 1886 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's, originally a passenger vessel but later converted as a coal trader departed from Penarth Dock on what would become its final voyage.

The flatness of the arches was necessary to avoid putting a " hump " in the bridge, which would have gone against Brunel's obsession with flat, gentle gradients ( 1 in 1, 320 on this stretch ).

At Briton Ferry, the canal ends under the M4 motorway at a scrapyard, but there are plans to refurbish Brunel's Briton Ferry dock, just to the south, and a short extension to it would provide a good terminus.

It was economical in its use of materials, and would prove to be the design prototype for Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.

To avoid confusion with fanclubs of the singer Henriette Sontag, the name was changed to " Tunnel over the Spree ," a topical reference to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel under the Thames, which would lead to an abortive effort to create a similar tunnel in Berlin.

* July 19 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's is launched from Bristol ; it will be the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Brunel's original plan proposed they be topped with then-fashionable sphinxes, but the ornaments were never constructed.

Brunel's machine could be operated by unskilled workers, at ten times the previous rate of production.

It is tempting to think that with a suitable vantage point, the effect ( if not Brunel's intentions ) can easily be checked on 9 April.

Longitudinal sleepers such as Brunel's baulk road are topped with iron or steel rails that are lighter than they then might otherwise be because of the support of the sleepers.

However, at first no contractor could be found willing to undertake the work, due to the immense difficulties and expense incurred by Marc Isambard Brunel's Thames Tunnel.

The Exmouth to Starcross Ferry is a passenger ferry that operates during the summer months across the Exe estuary to Starcross, where the pumping station for Brunel's Atmospheric Railway can be seen.

The structure is similar to Brunel's baulk track ; these longitudinal sleepers can be used with ballast, or with elastomer supports on a solid non-ballasted support.

The Act required the line to be built to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's broad gauge but delays, disputes and increasing costs led to its being completed as standard gauge.

The last portion of Brunel's Great Western Railway line between London and Bristol to be completed was between Bath and Chippenham.

In 1872, the line became the last in Wales to be converted from Brunel's gauge to standard gauge.

But work has now started to restore Brunel's tower, with a restoration group presently trying to restore what remains of the unique Brunel dock to working order ( the only one in the world to use a floating chamber ), for use by fishing boats and yachts.

Brunel's platforms were extended by towards London, and a new three-platform through station built on the site of the express platform, while the B & ER station was closed and the site used for a new carriage shed.

A second competition, held with new judges, was won by Brunel's design on 16 March 1831, for a suspension bridge with fashionably Egyptian-influenced towers.

In 1860, Brunel's Hungerford suspension bridge, over the Thames in London, was demolished to make way for a new railway bridge to Charing Cross railway station, and its chains were purchased for use at Clifton.

Initially copying wooden construction traditions with a frame over which the hull was fastened, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Britain of 1843 was the first radical new design, being built entirely of wrought iron.

After Brunel's death in September 1859 Brereton took over his role as chief engineer for many railway companies, designing new works and alterations.

Other bridge commissions in this period include the Tamar Bridge located next to Brunel's 1859 Royal Albert Bridge, the Kuala Lepar bridge across the Pahang River in Malaysia and the new London Bridge ( including the removal of Rennie's 1831 bridge and its reconstruction in Arizona ).