Building the last Main Line Railway

Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct: gcrcs165

Looking down from a spoil heap towards a circular timber shaft formwork. This would have been used to provide the shape of the brick lined air shafts which were sunk along the length of Catesby tunnel.

At the top of the picture are a number of laden Griff coal wagons: the Nuneaton coal mine was clearly providing the coal required for the steam locomotives, shovels ane pumps used on the tunnel's construction.

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