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.
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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
Links
- WikipediaPeto, Brassey and Betts
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ7178474
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