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Building the last Main Line Railway
Newton to the Oxford Canal: gcrcs147
View of two massive brick piers being built to carry the
Great Central over low lying ground near Rugby. This photograph is erroneously
captioned on the Transport Archive and Leicestershire Council's websites as
being 'thought to be two of the massive brick piers which were built to
support the four span girder bridge (no. 448) north of Rugby that carried the
GC's Main Line across the Oxford Canal'. Their height and shape are
sufficient evidence to the contrary when compared to the complete structure
seen in image 'gcrcs156'. They are in fact part of
the structure built to the north of the Oxford Canal next to the River Avon.
When the picture was taken, the railway's prodigious embankment appears to be
little more than a spoil heap. Note the brick vaulting at the top of the piers
which has been employed to help bear the weight of the girders and subsequent
rail traffic.
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