Peto, Betts and Brassey built at great speed the Grand Crimean Central Railway which enabled supplies, particularly heavy ammunition, to be transported from Balaclava to the British troops engaged in the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
The railway was built at cost and without any contract by a partnership of English railway contractors led by Samuel Morton Peto.
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News of these conditions was relayed to Britain, mainly by William Howard Russell, special correspondent of The Times.
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