Private company

Peto, Brassey and Betts

British civil engineering partnership

Peto, Brassey and Betts was a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts. They built a supply and casualty transport railway (Grand Crimean Central Railway) from Balaclava port to the siege lines southeast of Sevastopol in 1855 during the Crimean War.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Peto, Brassey and Betts was a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto, Thomas Brassey and Edward Betts. They built a supply and casualty transport railway (Grand Crimean Central Railway) from Balaclava port to the siege lines southeast of Sevastopol in 1855 during the Crimean War.2

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • Edward Betts
  • Samuel Morton Peto
  • Thomas Brassey

From Wikidata.1

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