L2392 - Steam shovel and navvies working at Westcotes, Leicester

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6975

Title

Description

L2392 - A group of navvies pause from their work 'south of Western Road bridge' (S.W.A. Newton's notes), and pose for the camera beside their Ruston steam navvy. The engine's cab is not an original feature, but an improvised structure fashioned from wood and corrugated metal that afforded the men inside some protection from the elements. Note the two women standing at the rear of the cab, and the short lengths of track used to manoeuvre the excavator: surely the crudest example of contractor's temporary railway.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L2392.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L2392 - A group of navvies pause from their work 'south of Western Road bridge' (S.W.A. Newton's notes), and pose for the camera beside their Ruston steam navvy. The engine's cab is not an original feature, but an improvised structure fashioned from wood and corrugated metal that afforded the men inside some protection from the elements. Note the two women standing at the rear of the cab, and the short lengths of track used to manoeuvre the excavator: surely the crudest example of contractor's temporary railway.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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