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    When Isambard Kingdom Brunel diced with death

    Nov 12, 2018 2 minutes

    By Robin Jones

    THIS early 19th-century drawing captures a daredevil moment which could have changed the future course of railway history forever.

    It shows 21-year-old Isambard Kingdom Brunel gingerly investigating a breach in the roof of his father Marc’s Thames Tunnel, through which the floodwaters of

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