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Building the last Main Line Railway

Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct: gcrcs165

Looking down from the top of a spoil heap towards a section of circular timber shaft formwork

Looking down from the top of a spoil heap towards a section of 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 and pumps used on the tunnel's construction.

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