Three of Isambard's greatest bridges have been made into benchs in the garden of the Brunel museum.

Maidenhead Bridge

This is one of the original bridges to carry the Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Bristol across the upper reaches of the River Thames. Even today it is believed they are still the longest and flatest brick built arch.

Hungerford Suspension Bridge

Where Charing Cross railway station is now in central London there used to be Hungerford Market, a sometime rival to the nearby Covent Garden although it never seemed to be quite as popular. The market's owners decided to build a crossing to bring people into the market. It was a suspension bridge which, when the market was sold for redevelopment as Charing Cross railway station, was knocked down. The brick piers where retained as part of the railway bridge and the suspension chains where eventually reused on the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol.

Royal Albert Bridge

An almost unique bridge. It is a self contained suspension bridge that requires no anchor chains to stop the main towers collapsing on each other. Instead the large tube at high level between the towers keeps them apart so giving its structural integrity.