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Building the last Main Line Railway

Rugby to Barby

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 (23)
Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct (31) Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton (28) Contractor's Yards & Locomotives (16)

A steam navvy is seen loading spoil on to a contractor's wagon on the site of the new station at Rugby
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Rugby Library
A steam navvy is seen loading spoil on to a contractor's wagon on the site of the new station at Rugby
Close up showing the contractor's wagon used to carry the spoil away from the excavation area
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Rugby Library
Close up showing the contractor's wagon used to carry the spoil away from the excavation area
Close up of the driver of the steam navvy, its machinery and vertical boiler which operated the steam shovel
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Rugby Library
Close up of the driver of the steam navvy, its machinery and vertical boiler which operated the steam shovel
Close up showing the steel road bridge work and the work being undertaken behind the steam navvy
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Rugby Library
Close up showing the steel road bridge work and the work being undertaken behind the steam navvy
View of another section of the Great Central's line being excavated by steam shovel south of Rugby
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Rugby Library
View of another section of the Great Central's line being excavated by steam shovel south of Rugby

Close up showing the face of the cutting being excavated and the steam shovel which is fully enclosed
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Rugby Library
Close up showing the face of the cutting being excavated and the steam shovel which is fully enclosed
Close up view of a team of two horses being used to move the fully loaded contractors wagon
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Rugby Library
Close up view of a team of two horses being used to move the fully loaded contractors wagon
View of a steam powered excavator being employed in a cutting south of Clifton Road bridge in Rugby
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Railway Archive
View of a steam powered excavator being employed in a cutting south of Clifton Road bridge in Rugby
View of a steam shovel being employed beneath the bridge carrying Ashlawn Road over the railway
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Railway Archive
View of a steam shovel being employed beneath the bridge carrying Ashlawn Road over the railway
View showing how Ashlawn Road's three-arch overbridge was erected in advance of the excavation of the line
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Railway Archive
View showing how Ashlawn Road's three-arch overbridge was erected in advance of the excavation of the line

View of the north side of the three arch bridge carrying Ashlawn Road over the Great Central line
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Railway Archive
View of the north side of the three arch bridge carrying Ashlawn Road over the Great Central line
Another view of the steam shovel operating beneath the bridge carrying Ashlawn Road over the railway
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Railway Archive
Another view of the steam shovel operating beneath the bridge carrying Ashlawn Road over the railway
A view of the steam navvy at work just south of Rugby where the cutting was only to be a few feet deep
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Railway Archive
A view of the steam navvy at work just south of Rugby where the cutting was only to be a few feet deep
One of the many steam shovel's in action tipping its load into a horse drawn contractors wagon
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Railway Archive
One of the many steam shovel's in action tipping its load into a horse drawn contractors wagon
A temporary pump installed beside a line of contractors temporary railway at Caves Inn, near Rugby
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Railway Archive
A temporary pump installed beside a line of contractors temporary railway at Caves Inn, near Rugby

Looking south to Barby along the nearly finished embankment with an underbridge in the foreground
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Railway Archive
Looking south to Barby along the nearly finished embankment with an underbridge in the foreground
View of the side of the railway embankment and discarded wagon near Rugby photographed on 13th March 1897
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Railway Archive
View of the side of the railway embankment and discarded wagon near Rugby seen on 13th March 1897
Looking north towards bridge No 455, the structure carrying Hillmorton Road over the new station
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Railway Archive
Looking north towards bridge No 455, the structure carrying Hillmorton Road over the new station
Looking south along a section of contractors temporary line towards Hillmorton Road overbridge
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Railway Archive
Looking south along a section of contractors temporary line towards Hillmorton Road overbridge
View of Bridge No 455 and the site of the long demolished Great Central station seen in June 1977
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Railway Archive
View of Bridge No 455 and the site of the long demolished Great Central station seen in June 1977

View of the south end of the abandoned platform of the former Great Central station as seen in June 1977
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Railway Archive
View of the south end of the abandoned platform of the former Great Central station as seen in June 1977
View from Hillmorton Road bridge looking south along the former Great Central station's platform
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Railway Archive
View from Hillmorton Road bridge looking south along the former Great Central station's platform
Looking north approximately one mile from Rugby GC station towards Dunchurch Bridge on 25th June 1897
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RM Casserley
Looking north approximately one mile from Rugby GC station towards Dunchurch Bridge on 25th June 1897

Newton to Oxford Canal (21) Great Central Bridge and Viaduct (12) Rugby to Barby (23)
Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct (31) Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton (28) Contractor's Yards & Locomotives (16)