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Wellington Bank is a steep railway embankment and associated climb located on the Bristol to Exeter line, that climbs from just northeast of Wellington, Somerset until its peak at Sampford Arundel, where it enters White Ball tunnel and travels under the Blackdown Hills. ==Background== (詳細はGreat Western Railway. Bristol merchants were anxious to secure a railway route to Exeter, which was an important commercial centre, and which had a harbour on the south coast, in the English Channel. Coastal shipping from the South coast and from continental Europe making for Bristol needed to navigate the hazardous north Cornwall coast after negotiating the waters round Land's End. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was appointed engineer, and his assistant William Gravatt surveyed the route in 1835 and was resident engineer for the section between Bristol and White Ball, with William Froude supervising the section from Whiteball to Exeter. Brunel himself was in charge of the design of White Ball tunnel.〔http://www.sampfordarundel.org.uk/sampage10.php〕 The first , broad gauge, section of the line was completed to Bridgwater on 14 June 1841, and the extension to Taunton in July 1842 – both using trains leased from the Great Western. At Norton Fitzwarren just west of Taunton, the intention was to split the railway three ways: *A branchline via the West Somerset Railway to Minehead *A junction with the Devon and Somerset Railway, a secondary route to Barnstaple *The mainline to Exeter via Wellington 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wellington Bank, Somerset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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