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62 relations: Alfred McAlpine, Ancient Rome, Atmospheric refraction, Bath Spa railway station, Bath stone, Bath, Somerset, Bomber, Box Hill, Wiltshire, Box, Wiltshire, Bristol, Bristol Aeroplane Company, Bristol Beaufighter, Bristol Blitz, Bristol Temple Meads railway station, Broad-gauge railway, Candle, Cementation Company, Central Government War Headquarters, Chippenham, Chipping Campden, Civil engineer, Classical architecture, Corsham, Corsham Computer Centre, Drilling and blasting, Electric locomotive, Frost, Fuller's earth, Great Oolite, Great Western main line, Great Western Railway, Great Western Railway (train operating company), Herne Bay, Kent, Inferior Oolite, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, List of tunnels in the United Kingdom, Listed building, London, Longtown, Cumbria, Mechanical engineering, Monkton Farleigh, Navvy, Nesscliffe, Network Rail, New Civil Engineer, Overhead line, Penguin Books, Pickaxe, RAF Rudloe Manor, Railway electrification system, ..., Request for tender, Room and pillar mining, Royal Air Force, Royal Engineers, Rustication (architecture), Shovel, Southern England, Stapleford Miniature Railway, Steam engine, Swindon, West of England, World War II. Expand index (12 more) »
Alfred McAlpine
Alfred McAlpine plc was a British construction firm headquartered in Hooton, Cheshire.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Atmospheric refraction
Atmospheric refraction is the deviation of light or other electromagnetic wave from a straight line as it passes through the atmosphere due to the variation in air density as a function of height.
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Bath Spa railway station
Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath, South West England.
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Bath stone
Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.
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Bomber
A bomber is a combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), firing torpedoes and bullets or deploying air-launched cruise missiles.
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Box Hill, Wiltshire
Box Hill is a small village in Wiltshire, England, most notable for its position above Brunel's famous Box Tunnel.
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Box, Wiltshire
Box is a large village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about west of Corsham and northeast of Bath.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Bristol Aeroplane Company
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines.
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Bristol Beaufighter
The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often referred to simply as the "Beau") is a multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the United Kingdom.
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Bristol Blitz
The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
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Bristol Temple Meads railway station
Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England.
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Broad-gauge railway
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.
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Candle
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.
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Cementation Company
The Cementation Company was a large British construction business.
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Central Government War Headquarters
The Central Government War Headquarters is a complex built underground, a 30 October 2005 article from The Sunday Times as the United Kingdom's Emergency Government War Headquarters – the hub of the country's alternative seat of power outside London during a nuclear war or conflict with the Soviet Union.
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Chippenham
Chippenham is a large historic market town in northwest Wiltshire, England.
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Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden is a small market town in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England.
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Civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.
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Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of Vitruvius.
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Corsham
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-western edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, which was formerly the main turnpike road from London to Bristol, southwest of Swindon, southeast of Bristol, northeast of Bath and southwest of Chippenham. Corsham is close to the county borders with Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Corsham was historically a centre for agriculture and later, the wool industry, and remains a focus for quarrying Bath Stone. It contains several notable historic buildings, such as the stately home of Corsham Court. During the Second World War and the Cold War, it became a major administrative and manufacturing centre for the Ministry of Defence, with numerous establishments both above ground and in the old quarry tunnels. The early 21st century saw growth in Corsham's role in the film industry. The parish includes the villages of Gastard and Neston, which is at the gates of the Neston Park estate.
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Corsham Computer Centre
The Corsham Computer Centre (CCC) is an underground British Ministry of Defence (MoD) installation in Corsham, Wiltshire, built in the 1980s.
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Drilling and blasting
Drilling and blasting is the controlled use of explosives and other methods such as gas pressure blasting pyrotechnics, to break rock for excavation.
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Electric locomotive
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.
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Frost
Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight.
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Fuller's earth
Fuller's earth is any clay material that has the capability to decolorize oil or other liquids without chemical treatment.
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Great Oolite
The Great Oolite is a geological formation in Europe.
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Great Western main line
The Great Western main line is a main line railway in England, that runs westwards from London Paddington to.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Great Western Railway (train operating company)
First Greater Western Limited, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western railway franchise.
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Herne Bay, Kent
Herne Bay is a seaside town in Kent, South East England, with a population of 38,563.
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Inferior Oolite
The Inferior Oolite is a sequence of Jurassic age sedimentary rocks in Europe.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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List of tunnels in the United Kingdom
This is a list of road, railway, waterway, and other tunnels in the United Kingdom.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Longtown, Cumbria
Longtown is a small town in northern Cumbria, England, just south of the Anglo-Scottish border.
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Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies engineering, physics, engineering mathematics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems.
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Monkton Farleigh
Monkton Farleigh is a village and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (6 km) from Bradford-on-Avon, and from the city of Bath.
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Navvy
Navvy, a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects and occasionally (in North America) to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery.
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Nesscliffe
Nesscliffe is a village in Shropshire, England, located north of the River Severn.
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Network Rail
Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.
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New Civil Engineer
New Civil Engineer is the monthly magazine for members of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the UK chartered body that oversees the practice of civil engineering in the UK.
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Overhead line
An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Pickaxe
A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle.
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RAF Rudloe Manor
RAF Rudloe Manor, formerly RAF Box, was a Royal Air Force station located north-east of Bath, England, between the settlements of Box and Corsham, in Wiltshire.
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Railway electrification system
A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.
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Request for tender
A request for tenders (RFT) is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers to submit a bid to supply products or services.
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Room and pillar mining
Room and pillar (variant of breast stoping), also called pillar and stall, is a mining system in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane, creating horizontal arrays of rooms and pillars.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.
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Rustication (architecture)
Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below. In classical architecture rustication is a range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar.
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Shovel
A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore.
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Southern England
Southern England, or the South of England, also known as the South, refers roughly to the southern counties of England.
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Stapleford Miniature Railway
Stapleford Miniature Railway is a historic steam locomotive-hauled gauge railway at Stapleford Park, Stapleford near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Swindon
Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.
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West of England
The West of England is a loose and locationally unspecific term sometimes given to the area surrounding the city and county of Bristol, England, and also sometimes applied more widely and in other parts of South West England.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Tunnel
