Building the last Main Line Railway

Rugby to Barby: gcrcs91

Looking south to Barby along the nearly finished embankment with an underbridge in the foreground. The brick wing walls of the underbridge were designed to support the railway embankment and its shape was dictated by the topography of the area and material used to form the embankment. The photograph is also 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.

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