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Building the last Main Line Railway
Newton to the Oxford Canal: gcrcs157
Looking towards Bridge No 448 from the top of the embankment
showing temporary contractor's trackwork. A steam powered crane is at work on
the far side of the embankment. Note the primitive 'stop', a sleeper laid
across the track, that has been installed at the sudden end of the temporary
tracks in the foreground: a typically pragmatic yet makeshift arrangement.
Visible at the centre of the picture are two of the massive brick piers which
eventually bore the weight of the four girder span. This was unusual as the
bridge would have been started well in advance of the embankment being built.
Therefore there is a good possibility that the construction of the bridge over
the Oxford Canal gave the contractor problems causing a delay in its
completion.
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