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Building the last Main Line Railway
Contractor's Builders Yards & Locomotives: gcrcs83
Looking across a line of contractor's temporary railway
towards a navvy camp near Flecknoe, Warwickshire, circa 1897. Note the Griff
coal wagon from Nuneaton full of coal for use primarily on the steam
locomotives, shovels and cranes although a little would be used within the
camp. However bleak and simplistic these huts appear today, this accommodation
built by the contractors was a huge improvement on the primitive and inadequate
dwellings which the navvies had inhabited for much of the nineteenth century.
Workers living here would have worked for T. Oliver & Son, the firm
responsible for building this section of the Last Main Line (Contract No.4,
Rugby to Woodford).
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