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Building the last Main Line Railway
Flecknoe, Willoughby and Staverton: gcrcs85
A line of contractor's temporary track snakes under a brick
occupation overbridge near Staverton, Northamptonshire, circa 1897. The scene
is unusual in so much as the initial bed of ballast has already been laid for
the permanent way, and contractor's rails are normally pictured running over
muddy and uneven ground. Soon after this photograph was taken, these tracks
would have been lifted and replaced with rails and sleepers for the 'permanent
way'.
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