Excerpt from Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles: Soldier and Civil Engineer, Formerly Lieutenant in H. M. 1st Royals, Past-President of Institution of Civil Engineers; A Reminiscence of Early Railway History The writer is indebted to many relatives and friends for kind help and counsel. Amongst these, he is proud to mention his brothers, Hutton and Henry Vignoles; to the latter more especially for valuable aid in many engineering and personal details, and to the former for unrestricted use of all family letters and papers, as well as for much judicious criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.