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Building the last Main Line Railway

Newton to the Oxford Canal: gcrcs224

View along a section of temporary trackwork towards a completed brick arch overbridge south of Newton

View along a section of temporary trackwork towards a completed brick arch overbridge south of Newton. The wagon standing beneath the bridge is fitted with dumb buffers, e.g. solid timber baulks that do not compress to absorb shocks, which indicates that this is most probably a contractor's vehicle. The bridge's wooden centrings used to support the archway during construction are seen lying on the banks of the cutting, one on the left bank before the bridge and another on the right bank after the bridge. The amount of clutter track on the left must have been used as a siding for the delivery of the materials for the bridge. The temporary track on the right shows it has been laid to a much higher standard than was often the case only the absence of chairs supporting the rails on each sleeper and the distance between sleepers provide hard evidence that its not part of the permanent way.

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