Building the last Main Line Railway
Introduction
The photographs of the building of the Great Central' route
to London are from the S.W.A. Newton collection via three sources. The
principal source being the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester &
Rutland whose extensive collection is available via the very informative web
site Railway
Archive: The Last Main Line.
We have however structured the order of the photographs, see
below, relating to Warwickshire in a geographical order starting near Newton,
just inside the county's border with Leicestershire, and finishing with
Flecknoe, just before the line re-enters Northamptonshire.
The photographs from the 'Railway Archive: The Last Main
Line' web site have very informative captions which in many instances we have
reproduced in full. However we have added to and amended the captions of a
number of the photographs, particularly relating to building practice, to
reflect information which we have to hand and the Railway Archive's author did
not. Should any mistake come to light these must be considered as being our
responsibility alone.
It is our stated practice to accommodate fluctuations in the
County's boundary line where this interrupts a route. Therefore as both Barby
and Catesby Tunnel lie on the route between Rugby and Willoughby, but lie
within Northamptonshire, we have included these for the sake of
completeness.
Finally the 'Railway Archive: The Last Main Line' web site
also includes photographs of the dismantled line taken in the 1970s which we
felt were very poignant and therefore we have exceptionally extended our 1968
timeline to include a few examples.
Select a station or subheading to view associated images.
Numbers in [brackets] specify the number of photos on each page.
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