Peto, Brassey and Betts was a civil engineering partnership between Samuel Morton Peto

Samuel Morton Peto

Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet was an English entrepreneur and civil engineer in the 19th century. A partner in Grissell and Peto, he managed construction firms that built many major buildings and monuments in London...

, Thomas Brassey

Thomas Brassey

Thomas Brassey was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built about one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built one...

 and Edward Betts

Edward Betts

Edward Ladd Betts was an English civil engineering contractor who was mainly involved in the building of railways.-Early life:...

. They built a supply and casualty transport railway (Grand Crimean Central Railway

Grand Crimean Central Railway

The Grand Crimean Central Railway was built in 1855 during the Crimean War. Its purpose was to supply ammunition and provisions to Allied soldiers engaged in the siege of Sevastopol who were stationed on a plateau between Balaclava and Sevastopol...

) from Balaclava port to the siege lines south east of Sevastopol in 1855 during the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

. The supply line was instrumental in the success of the siege. The partnership was contracted to produce a number of significant projects around the world including Victoria Bridge

Victoria Bridge (Montreal)

Victoria Bridge , formerly originally known as Victoria Jubilee Bridge, is a bridge over the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore city of Saint-Lambert....

 in Montreal and the European and North American Railway

European and North American Railway

The European and North American Railway is the name for three historic Canadian and American railways which were built in New Brunswick and Maine....

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