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Building the last Main Line Railway

Newton to the Oxford Canal: gcrcs131

A navvy poses for the camera besides a pumping engine fitted with a vertical boiler at the foot of an embankment near Caves Inn, north of Newton

A navvy poses for the camera besides a pumping engine fitted with a vertical boiler at the foot of an embankment near Caves Inn, north of Newton. This man would most likely have worked for Topham, Jones & Railton, the firm responsible for building Contract No.3 of the GC's Main Line (Aylestone to Rugby).

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