sentences:  Isambard Kingdom Brunel was engaged to design new docks; both he and Gill were involved in the South Devon Railway, so it is no surprise that the first railway station in Plymouth was opened nearby in 1849.The next year a railway extension was built to the new docks, customs facilities were granted and the docks were recognised as a Government mail packet station.Brunel next built another pier, an iron floating pontoon long by wide (91 m × 12 m) for the Irish Steamship Company whose vessels were regularly using the harbour.