Building the last Main Line Railway

Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct: gcrcs162

Eight navvies pose for Newton's camera by the timber headgear erected at one of the shafts sunk during the construction of Catesby tunnel. Piled on the makeshift loading stage beside the contractor's temporary rails, and waiting to be lowered to the army of men working below, are some of the thirty million bricks which were required for the tunnel's completion.

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