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Archaeologists working with one of the world’s newest rail projects have discovered the remains of one of the oldest. Near London’s Paddington Station, researchers employed by the Crossrail tunnel project dug up the foundations of engine sheds, workshops, and turntables used to turn trains, built in about 1851 by I.K. Brunel, creator of the Great Western Railway, which linked London to western England. They also found traces of Brunel’s stone rail beds, which were among the last to be buil
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