Building the last Main Line Railway

Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton: gcrcs123

Thought to have been taken near Staverton Road, Warwickshire, a team of navvies take a momentary break from their work and pose for Newton's camera. Using small wooden tubs being drawn by horses along a muddy narrow gauge track, these men are removing turf. This was the first stage of building the line, after this process the contractor's standard gauge would be laid either to assist in the removal of spoil in a cutting or to transport the spoil to an embankment.

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