THE Brunel 200 celebrations are in full swing in Newton Abbot this weekend with the 200 birthday commemoration events in the grounds of Forde House. At the Newton Abbot Town and GWR Museum, in St Paul's Road, there is a special display of Isambard Kingdom Brunel – the beginning of the town's railway heritage. On Friday, watercolour drawings by William Dawson were handed over for display in the museum. He was a talented surveyor of Exeter and completed a series of the drawings of views both sides of the railway from Exeter to Totnes. A coup for the Newton Abbot Museum, it is the first time these watercolours, which depict the atmospheric system in 1846, have left their home at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. They will be on display at the museum throughout this month.