L2277 - Tip bank and discarded wagon at Rugby

iBase ID

11788

Title

Description

L2277 - This tip bank and discarded wagon body were photographed at Rugby on 13.3.1897. Particular efforts had been made to ensure that the London Extension was a fast railway with an even gradient, and this ambition required millions of tons of earth to be excavated from cuttings and piled high for embankments. Although the Last Main Line has been closed for many years, its influence on the rural landscape it passed through may never disappear.

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.

L2277.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L2277 - This tip bank and discarded wagon body were photographed at Rugby on 13.3.1897. Particular efforts had been made to ensure that the London Extension was a fast railway with an even gradient, and this ambition required millions of tons of earth to be excavated from cuttings and piled high for embankments. Although the Last Main Line has been closed for many years, its influence on the rural landscape it passed through may never disappear.

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

File metadata

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4856.jpg

File size

1.33 MB

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JPEG