Building the last Main Line Railway

Rugby to Barby: gcrcs91

Looking south along the embankment towards Barby in Northamptonshire where the cattle sidings were located, this photograph provides a reminder of how railway construction had the power to transform the landscape.

The millions of tons of earth and rock, driven out of cuttings and piled high for embankments, forever changed the face of rural Britain. The brick wing walls and parapet of an underbridge can be seen in the foreground.

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