Building the last Main Line Railway

Rugby to Barby: gcrcs104

This tip bank and discarded wagon body were photographed at Rugby on 13.3.1897. The wagon is probably lying here as a result of an accident when tipping the spoil from the top of the embankment.

Particular efforts had been made to ensure that the London Extension was a fast railway with an even gradient, and this ambition required millions of tons of earth to be excavated from cuttings and piled high for embankments. Although the GC Main Line has been closed for many years, its influence on the rural landscape it passed through may never disappear.

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