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[[File:Peto.jpg |thumb|300px|<nowiki>Morton </nowiki> Peto]]
[[File:Thomas Brassey.jpg |thumb|300px| Thomas Brassey]]
[[File:Victoria Bridge, Montreal.jpg |thumb|300px|Handbill for Victoria Bridge, Montreal, built by Peto, Brassey and Betts]]
'''<nowiki>Morton </nowiki> Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts''' were the partnership of civil engineers who were responsible for the [[Construction of the Severn Valley Railway|construction of the Severn Valley Railway]]. They were also responsible for the construction or many other railways both in the UK and overseas; the latter including the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada and by coincidence, the Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at Montreal.
==The contractors==
'''Sir Samuel <nowiki>Morton </nowiki> Peto, 1st Baronet''' (1809-1889) could be regarded as a typical Victorian entrepreneur. As well as being a civil engineer and railway developer, he served as a commissioner for and guarantor of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and was a Member of Parliament for 15 years. In business, he liked to take a directorship or similar management role in projects with which he was associated.<ref name = "Nabarro27">[[Bibliography#Books | Nabarro (1971)]] p. 27.</ref>
Peto began a civil engineering partnership in 1834 with his cousin Thomas Grissell. An early railway related job was the construction of Birmingham Curzon Street railway station, although the business was primarily concerned with conventional building which including the Reform Club in London and Nelsons Column. Grissell eventually ended the partnership in 1846 having become increasingly nervous of the risks taken by Peto<ref name = "Nabarro26">[[Bibliography#Books | Nabarro (1971)]] p. 26.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto_and_Betts Wikipedia]</ref>.
:''I am Gentlemen,''<br>
:''Your very obedient servant,''<br>
:''S <nowiki>Morton </nowiki> Peto''
In his letter, “the Direction” was Peto’s term for the Board of Directors. By that time, [[John Fowler]] was the company’s engineer with whom Peto, Brassey and Betts (“my friends”) would work.
==See also==
*[[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership]]<br>
==References==
