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Building the last Main Line Railway
Catesby Tunnel and Viaduct: gcrcs163
View looking north alongside several of the thirteen piers
being built to form the twelve arch Catesby viaduct. A wonderfully industrious
scene of the building of the viaduct which brought the GC's Main Line across
the infant River Leam north of Catesby, Northamptonshire. On the left, the
structure's massive brick piers are beginning to take shape, whilst beside it a
line of contractor's temporary railway makes the steep and winding climb out of
the valley, doubtless something of a struggle for the small locos employed to
bring men and materials to and from the site. On the right, a scotch derrick
and steam powered jib swing a bucket laden with spoil to a navvy standing on a
large heap. Bricks either neatly piled or strewn haphazardly along the valley,
are everywhere.
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