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Brunel was so forceful in his demands for the levelest possible track bed that the Great Western line came to be known as "Brunel's billiard table" (ref: The Grand Experiment : The Birth of the Railway Age 1820 - 1845). "Flats" in this context is a play on words referring to both the levelness of the track bed and the use of flat to mean a naive speculator.
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Parliament approved 3,000 miles of new railway during 1845 and a further 4,500 miles during 1846. The situation is illustrated in these two graphs

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Scott is probably John Scott (1802-1885) who was born in Morpeth (i). However no portraits of Victoria or Albert by Scott have been found so far.

(i) www.thewallingtongallery.co.uk/collections/john-scott-1802-1885

  1. [203Notation]
  2. [Note 348.1]
  3. [Note 348.2]
  4. [203 Welsh Text]

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