Building the last Main Line Railway

Great Central Bridge and Viaduct: gcrcs175

the completed girder bridge and brick built viaduct, crossing the London & North Western Railway and the River Avon flood plain in Rugby, Warwickshire. The photograph, taken circa 1923, shows the bridge in operation and a group of early train-spotters looking over a boundary wall.

The viaduct was built as part of Contract No. 4 awarded to T. Oliver & Sons. Just north of the viaduct is the large steel girder bridge carrying the GCR over the Oxford Canal.

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