. Railway Times . nostly through rock, necessitating blasting. Quantities of-poil taken from the cuttings ate being employed to till in theold canal. BANKS ANI> \l MiUCTS. No. 1 begins at Camerton, and continues for 53 ?bain-, within .0 1 rage depth of 2, at Dunkerton, is n chains long, and attains a depth ol Constructing the Viaduct for the new line under the Viaductof the Somerset and Dorset Railway at Midford. the locks. The work i bei I oul in two contracts, respectively miles lonp (from < amerton), and 6 mil - ,- contractoi res are Messrs. Pauling and 1 o
. Railway Times . nostly through rock, necessitating blasting. Quantities of-poil taken from the cuttings ate being employed to till in theold canal. BANKS ANI> \l MiUCTS. No. 1 begins at Camerton, and continues for 53 ?bain-, within .0 1 rage depth of 2, at Dunkerton, is n chains long, and attains a depth ol Constructing the Viaduct for the new line under the Viaductof the Somerset and Dorset Railway at Midford. the locks. The work i bei I oul in two contracts, respectively miles lonp (from < amerton), and 6 mil - ,- contractoi res are Messrs. Pauling and 1 o. Ltd., ol Westminster, who have six locomotives, three-team navvies, and a number ol stationary 1 ngim - ol both thehorizontal and the vertical type employed on the new the railway i- being laid in the bed of the derelictwaterway, the work is much simplified by the excellentworkmanship found to have been employed in the formationol the hank-, cuttings, bride,--, culverl , et< ol tin In canal had one shorl I on 1 lie summit level al 1 1 [lay, and it has been possible to adapl thai to thi railwajinderp ning the south side and end-. On the non-canal bed section, however, then anheavy works, which mav be cl a- follows : Old Weigh House on the Somerset Coal Canal at Midford-The keepers house adjo
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