Tring cutting - 17 June 1837. Engineer Stephenson. From 'Drawings of the London Railway', London 1839. Navvies excavating cutting: wheelbarrows filled at bottom, line attached to wheel, and then winched to top along narrow plank with labourer behind guiding.


Tring cutting - 17 June 1837. Engineer Stephenson. From 'Drawings of the London Railway', London 1839. Navvies excavating cutting: wheelbarrows filled at bottom, line attached to wheel, and then winched to top along narrow plank with labourer behind guiding.


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