Building the last Main Line Railway

Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton: gcrcs113

Spanning a single track of main line permanent way, this is the plate girder bridge that carried the Great Central's London Extension over the London & North Western Railway's route between Weedon and Leamington. The bridge has been built to accomodate double tracks should the LNWR require it in the future, a neccessary but expensive insurance policy as it always remained a single line until closure. T. Oliver & Son was the firm contracted to build this section of the Last Main Line (Rugby to Woodford).

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