L3488 - Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting workers off the railway site

L3488 - Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting workers off the railway site
L3488 - Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting workers off the railway site
L3488 - Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting workers off the railway site
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Title
L3488 - Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting workers off the railway site
Description
L3488 - This photograph shows a navvy train, or 'paddy mail' ferrying a group of men home from a hard days work on the railway in Brackley. The open topped structure displays the name of the contraction company - Walter Scott & Co. - responsible for construction of this section of the Extension. It is towed along by a contractor's locomotive bearing the name 'C. H. Stanton.'


British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection






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Maker
S.W.A. Newton
LCC ID. No.
L3488.tif
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Personal use only unless otherwise agreed
Notes
IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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