L2804 - Cutting and contractor's railway near Mountsorrel, Leicestershire

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8086

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L2804 - This view along a roughly hewn cutting is thought to have been taken near Mountsorrel around 1897. Typically, the two lines of contractor's temporary railway are poorly laid and caked with mud. Given these appalling conditions, it is perhaps surprising that the mechanical plant used for the railway's construction, such as the steam powered excavator that is just visible beyond, was not subject to more derailments.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

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Maker

S.W.A. Newton

LCC ID. No.

L2804.tif

Image Use

Personal use only unless otherwise agreed

Notes

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

Exhibitions with this image

L2804 - This view along a roughly hewn cutting is thought to have been taken near Mountsorrel around 1897. Typically, the two lines of contractor's temporary railway are poorly laid and caked with mud. Given these appalling conditions, it is perhaps surprising that the mechanical plant used for the railway's construction, such as the steam powered excavator that is just visible beyond, was not subject to more derailments.

British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection

Subjects

Transport

Transport > Rail

Working Life

Working Life > Industrial

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