Building the last Main Line Railway

Newton to the Oxford Canal

Additional pages divided on different thematic subjects are available by clicking on the links below:

Newton to Oxford Canal (21)                           |  Great Central Bridge and Viaduct (12)
Rugby to Barby (22)                                       |  Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct (31) 
Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton (28)          |  Contractor's Builders Yards & Locomotives (16)

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Ref: gcrcs2 - Rugby Library Construction of the GC bridge across the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs2a - Rugby Library Close up showing the heavy timber framing used to support the bridge

Ref: gcrcs2b - Rugby Library Close up showing the opposite end of the temporary bridge with a smaller derrick

Ref: gcrcs46 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Another view of the building of the bridge over the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs72 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland A brick arched bridge on the London Extension

Ref: gcrcs90 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland One of the four girder spans that acrossed the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs131 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Vertical boiler pumping engine near Caves Inn, Newton

Ref: gcrcs111 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland The viaduct which carried the GC Main Line over the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs106 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Timber scaffolding for the Great Central viaduct across the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs143 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Timber scaffolding used for one of the brick piers of the GC's girder sections over the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs147 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Two of the massive brick piers supporting the four span girder bridge that carried the GC across the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs140 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland An earlier view of two of the brick piers supporting the four span girder bridge that carried the GC across the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs158 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland One of the massive brick piers supporting the four span girder bridge that crossed the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs156 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland The completed four girder spans of the viaduct which carried the GC's Main Line across the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs157 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland View from the top of the embankment of the girder bridge crossing the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs167 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Another view of the four span girder viaduct that carried the GC's Main Line across the Oxford Canal

Ref: gcrcs168 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland The large brick arch overbridge which carried Newton Lane across the Great Central's London Extension

Ref: gcrcs183 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland A steam navvy, built by Whitaker & Sons of Leeds, seen here at work in a cutting near Rugby

Ref: gcrcs95 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland A brick arched underbridge near the Oxford Canal at Rugby

Ref: gcrcs103 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland A skewed brick arched underbridge carrying the GC Main Line across a road just north of the River Avon

Ref: gcrcs146 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Temporary camp huts near Newton to house the navvies at work