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L1572 - Navvies drilling holes in sleepers, Finmere, Buckinghamshire
Description
L1572 - Drilling holes to fix the rail chairs to the sleepers at Finmere in Buckinghamshire 4th October 1897. These navvies would probably have worked for Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne, the contractor who built this section of the Railway (Contract No.6 Brackley to Quainton Road).
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found
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More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found
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S.W.A. Newton
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L1572.tif
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IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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L1572 - Drilling holes to fix the rail chairs to the sleepers at Finmere in Buckinghamshire 4th October 1897. These navvies would probably have worked for Walter Scott & Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne, the contractor who built this section of the Railway (Contract No.6 Brackley to Quainton Road).
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
More information about these photographs and the Great Central Railway can be found
here
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Transport
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Working Life
Working Life
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Industrial
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3570 px
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2602 px
Uploaded on
2013-06-05 13:20:24
Date taken
04/10/1897