L1724 - Navvies in tipping wagons, Leicestershire

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10959

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L1724 - Navvies in tipping wagons travelling to their work in Leicestershire, hauled by a 0-6-0 contractor's locomotive, circa 1897. On the side of the central wagon are the initials H.L., confirming that these navvies were working for Henry Lovatt & Co. of Wolverhampton, the company responsible for building Contract No.2 of the Last Main Line (Leake to Aylestone).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L1724.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative

Exhibitions with this image

L1724 - Navvies in tipping wagons travelling to their work in Leicestershire, hauled by a 0-6-0 contractor's locomotive, circa 1897. On the side of the central wagon are the initials H.L., confirming that these navvies were working for Henry Lovatt & Co. of Wolverhampton, the company responsible for building Contract No.2 of the Last Main Line (Leake to Aylestone).

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found here

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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