Thomas Hardy Bertram

Thomas Hardy Bertram, ( -1889), Civil Engineer of the GWR

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Obituary.

A PROMINENT figure in the railway engineering world has just passed away in Thomas Hardy Bertram, who died on the 23rd inst at Beckenham. Mr. Bertram retired several years since from active service, and was for a long period prior a Member Of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His career is more widely known in the early period of construction of the works of the Great Western and other railways in connection, carried out under the celebrated engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

During the early progress of those works Mr. Bertram became one of his principal assistants, and subsequently his abilities and energy led, later on, to his promotion as chief. Under Mr. Brunel's supervision he carried out some of the heaviest works between, Chippenham, Bath, and Bristol, and also laid the foundation, in conjunction with Mr. (now Sir Daniel) Gooch, of the present "Swindon Works" of the Great Western Railway.

He also assisted in the erection and completion of the famous " Saltash Bridge," was engaged also in the construction of the Cornwall Railways, the works at Plymouth and the docks there. Later on he had charge of, and carried out, the construction of the Wilts Somerset and Weymouth, the Oxford and Birmingham, and Birmingham Wolverhampton and Dudley Railways; as well as the Brentford Railway and Docks, Henley and Uxbridge branches, and other important works of the Great Western Railway. His high abilities led to his being.

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