Building the last Main Line Railway

Rugby to Barby: gcrcs3b

Close up view of image 'gcrcs3' showing a team of two horses being used to move the fully loaded contractors wagon. The line would have been built by first removing the turf and then the laying of the 'temporary way', the contractors lines, along the route. This work allowing the excavated material from cuttings to be transported via the temporary way to be tipped to the area where an embankment would be required. The wooden trough on the right would have been used to either hold water or feed for the horses. The raised trough would have made feeding and watering the second horse easier as it would be able to feed without having the harness connecting it to the horse in front removed. There also appears to be empty bags beneath the trough which could have held their feed.

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