L3485 - Laying foundations for Soar Lane Viaduct

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10593

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Description

L3485 - Laying the foundation trenches for the viaduct across Soar Lane. The railway in this area and the nearby Leicester Central Station was built by Henry Lovatt of Wolverhampton as part of Contract No. 2. Established and densely populated cities such as Leicester and Nottingham provided Railway designers and engineers with considerable obstacles. Houses like those seen in the background of the photograph had to be purchased and demolished to make way for the new Line. However a number of these structures were reused as navvies houses.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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

Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L3485.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L3485 - Laying the foundation trenches for the viaduct across Soar Lane. The railway in this area and the nearby Leicester Central Station was built by Henry Lovatt of Wolverhampton as part of Contract No. 2. Established and densely populated cities such as Leicester and Nottingham provided Railway designers and engineers with considerable obstacles. Houses like those seen in the background of the photograph had to be purchased and demolished to make way for the new Line. However a number of these structures were reused as navvies houses.

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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8860.jpg

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2.58 MB

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JPEG