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GWR Route: Birmingham and Henley in Arden Railway Company

Lapworth to Henley in Arden Branch Line: gwrha2820

A mechanical steam shovel is being used with a gang of navvies to trim the cutting near Crockets Farm bridge

A mechanical steam shovel is being used with a gang of navvies to trim the cutting near Crockets Farm bridge north of Henley in Arden in 1906. The contractor's wagon is open at the front to aid disposal of the soil. The wagon when full would be moved forward to join the other wagons seen standing on the temporary track on the right. They would be coupled together and moved en-block by the contractor's 0-4-0ST locomotive to elsewhere along the line to be used to form an embankment or similar.

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