Building the last Main Line Railway

Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton

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Ref: gcrcs73 Railway Archive View of Willoughby Viaduct - Bridge 471 - which lay close to the site of Braunston & Willoughby station

Ref: gcrcs133 Railway Archive View of Willoughby Viaduct after it had been completed and with embankments being near complete on either side

Ref: gcrcs134 Railway Archive Looking from the embankment along the 13 arches of completed Great Central viaduct at Willoughby

Ref: gcrcs171 Railway Archive The fully completed thirteen arch viaduct built by Thomas Oliver & Sons as part of contract No 4

Ref: gcrcs68 Railway Archive View of a temporary wooden bridge erected over the Wolfhampcote to Flecknoe Road in Warwickshire

Ref: gcrcs82 Railway Archive View of the completed brick arch underbridge Upper Shuckborough north of Staverton Road

Ref: gcrcs119 Railway Archive Contractor's temporary tracks snake their way beneath the three arch brick overbridge near Nethercote

Ref: gcrcs129 Railway Archive View of Bridge No 469 located near Braunston photographed prior to the building of the embankment

Ref: gcrcs169 Railway Archive View of Bridge No 479, a girder underbridge, spanning a cutting near Flecknoe circa 1898

Ref: gcrcs112 Railway Archive View of the plate girder underbridge which carried the Great Central's Main Line over a public road

Ref: gcrcs93 Railway Archive Another example of one of the many underbridges being provided by the Great Central for local farmers

Ref: gcrcs114 Railway Archive View of a brick arched bridge with curved retaining wing walls which carried the GC line to London over a farm track

Ref: gcrcs145 Railway Archive The double plate girder bridge for the GC's Main Line into Braunston & Willoughby Station

Ref: gcrcs89 Railway Archive The two girder underbridges carrying the GC Line into Braunston and Willoughby Station

Ref: gcrcs115 Railway Archive Bridge No. 474, a girder occupation structure to carry a track over the GC line near Willoughby

Ref: gcrcs84 Railway Archive With the wooden centrings still to be removed Staverton Viaduct is seen in the final stages of its construction

Ref: gcrcs137 Railway Archive Built in advance of the embankment is a completed brick arch occupation underbridge over a pathway

Ref: gcrcs116 Railway Archive A brick arch occupation underbridge which carried the London Extension over a farm track near Wolfhampton

Ref: gcrcs117 Railway Archive Girder occupation underbridge prior to the construction of its plate girder parapet east of Nethercote

Ref: gcrcs118 Railway Archive View of a completed plate girder occupation underbridge for a footpath east of Nethercote in 1897

Ref: gcrcs85 Railway Archive A line of contractor's temporary track snakes under a brick occupation overbridge near Staverton

Ref: gcrcs123 Railway Archive A team of navvies take a short break from their work in order to pose for Newton's camera

Ref: gcrcs132 Railway Archive A single line of contractor's temporary track passes beneath a brick and girder overbridge near Rainsbrook

Ref: gcrcs138 Railway Archive The plate girder overbridge erected to carry the GC across the Nethercote to Wolfhampton road

Ref: gcrcs135 Railway Archive The single span plate girder bridge which carried the GC's main line over the LNWR's branch line to Weedon

Ref: gcrcs113 Railway Archive The completed plate girder bridge which carried the GC's London Extension over the Weedon branch line

Ref: gcrcs136 Railway Archive A plate girder occupation overbridge carrying the London Extension over a farm track south of Willoughby

Ref: gcrcs92 Railway Archive Looking west at the completed girder bridge which carried the London Extension over the Grand Union Canal

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