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L2812 - Steam cranes and a rock cutting on the Mountsorrel branch
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L2812 - Steam cranes and a rock cutting on the Mountsorrel branch
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L2812 - This magnificent photograph was taken during construction of the Mountsorrel branch line, a short single track route that left the London Extension at Swithland before heading north east to the Mountsorrel quarries. As this picture of a roughly hewn rock cutting testifies, significant extraction of granite was required for the line itself. Two steam powered cranes are at work on the contractor's temporary railway that is running, somewhat precariously, along the edge of the cutting wall.
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
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S.W.A. Newton
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L2812.tif
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IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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L2812 - This magnificent photograph was taken during construction of the Mountsorrel branch line, a short single track route that left the London Extension at Swithland before heading north east to the Mountsorrel quarries. As this picture of a roughly hewn rock cutting testifies, significant extraction of granite was required for the line itself. Two steam powered cranes are at work on the contractor's temporary railway that is running, somewhat precariously, along the edge of the cutting wall.
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
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Uploaded on
2013-06-05 11:20:49
Date taken
01/01/1897