Building the last Main Line Railway

Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton: gcrcs112

View of the plate girder underbridge which carried the Great Central's Main Line over a public road. Built by T. Oliver & Son as part of Contract No 4 (Rugby to Woodford), the bridge spanned the Wolfhampcote and Nethercote road and entailed erecting road side fences to either side of the bridge as well as laying down new gravel hard standing to the road. In common with so much of the London Extension, this structure has, unsurprisingly, long since been demolished.

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