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LNER Stations

Building the last Main Line Railway

Contractor's Builders Yard & Locomotives

Additional pages divided on different thematic subjects are available by clicking on the links below:

Newton to Oxford Canal (21) Great Central Bridge and Viaduct (12) Rugby to Barby (23)
Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct (31) Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton (28) Contractor's Yards & Locomotives (16)

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LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs45 - WoW
Contractor's 0-6-0ST locomotive "St George"
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs48 - WoW
Contractor's 0-6-0 locomotive 'St George' on a train of contractors wagons
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs49 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Contractors 0-6-0ST locomotive "Mersey" seen at Rugby
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs50 - WoW
Contractor's 0-4-0ST locomotive "Annie"
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs51 - WoW
Contractors 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotive "Frank" was an

LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs184 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Contractor's 0-4-0ST locomotive 'ANNIE'
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs121 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Two saddle tank locomotives in the engine sheds near Willoughby
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs130 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
An engineer's or contractor's office near Willoughby
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs120 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Thomas Oliver & Son builders contractor's yard near Willoughby
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs94 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
T. Oliver & Son's builders yard

LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs128 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Contractor's temporary railway near the site of Braunston and Willoughby Station
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs83 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
a navvy camp near Flecknoe, Warwickshire
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs152 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
A Navvies accomodation camp near Flecknoe
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs154 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
navvy mission room at the hutted camp near Flecknoe
LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs86 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Converted navvies' mission reading room Staverton, Northamptonshire

LNER railway photo
Ref: gcrcs87 - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland
Inside the navvies' mission room

Newton to Oxford Canal (21) Great Central Bridge and Viaduct (12) Rugby to Barby (23)
Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct (31) Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton (28) Contractor's Yards & Locomotives (16)