# Talk:William Henry Barlow

This this Barlow have anything to do with the design of Barlow rail, a cross section that was in any case not very successful? 
Tabletop 04:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
No it was his father who designed the rail Peterlewis 20:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I have inserted a reference to Gilbert Scott as the architect who designed the Midland Hotel at St Pancras. Peterlewis 20:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The broad gauge GWR used a heavy section bridge rail. Some constituent companies (notably the South Wales Railway) used Barlow rail. However Barlow rail was also withdrawn from such use fairly quickly, a few years before the merger with the GWR. So is it true to say (as stated here) that "the GWR used Barlow rail"?  Is there a good citation to support this?  Its constituent companies used this rail, but not successfully and not into the time period of them being part of the GWR. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:11, 23 April 2013 (UTC)