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Building the last Main Line Railway

Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton: gcrcs123

A team of navvies take a short break from their work to pose for Newton's camera

A team of navvies take a short break from their work in order to pose for Newton's camera some where near to Staverton Road. Using small wooden tubs being drawn by horses along a muddy narrow gauge track, these men are removing turf. This was the first stage of building the line, after this process the contractor's standard gauge would be laid either to assist in the removal of spoil in a cutting or to transport the spoil to an embankment.

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