NRM GR/117
Distribution
of Contractors Projects:
1841 - 1850
R & J
Sharpe: 4 (Wales)
1851 - 1870
Sharpe &
Sons: 1 (Central Southern England), 3 (West Country), 1
(South East)
1871 - 1914
None
1850 - South
Wales Railway (Chepstow - Swansea)
Contractors -
Newport Division: Contract No. 1 James Rennie &
Co and Robert Sharpe and J. Morgan; Contract 3 & 4 &
10 - Robert Sharpe; Swansea Division: Contract No. 1
J. Sharpe & I. Fussell, No. 14 J. Sharpe
Tenders
Received: Newport Division; 8th April 1846, Robert Sharpe £94,752;
10th February 1847, R. Sharpe, £118,000
Engineer: I.
K. Brunell
1859, 4th
May (opened) - The Cornwall Railway (Truro - Liskeard)
Formations:
Messrs. Sharpe & Sons
Engineer: I.
K. Brunell
Sources West
Briton (supp.), 6th May 1859
Royal
Cornwall Gazette, 6th May 1859
Falmouth
& Penryn Weekly News, 22nd August 1863
1863 -
Falmouth Branch (CR)
Contractors:
(1) Samuel Garrett (c1854), (2) Sharpe & Sons (for £172,000)
Sources:
Falmouth & Penryn Weekly Times, 22 August 1863
West Briton,
22nd August 1863
c1863 -
North Taunton - Okehampton Road (London & South Western
Railway)
Contractors:
Messrs Sharpe & Sons
Sources:
Tavistock Gazette, 30th June 1863
Torquay
Chronicle, 16th July 1864
Note: Messrs
Sharpe & Sons were quoted in the Tavistock Gazette 30th
June 1863 as being about to take on the North Taunton - Bude
line, an intention thwarted, presumably, by the financial
crash of 1866
1866, March
5th (opened) - Southampton & Netley Railway
Contractors:
Sharpe & Sons
Sources:
Railway News, 10th March 1866
E. Course,
The Southampton & Netley Railway, 1873, pp18-19
1867
(opened) Letterhead - Dorking (LBSCR)
Contractor:
(1) Messrs. Tweedy & Co.
(2) Messrs
Sharpe & Sons
1874
(opened) - Barnstaple - Infracombe
Tender:
Robert Sharpe & Sons (£212,000)
Contractor:
James Taylor (£90,000)