Navvies Collection (page 2)

GWR navvies at Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, South Wales
A group of Great Western Railway navvies straightening the track at Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, South Wales

GWR locomotive, Treffgarne, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Four railway workers with a Great Western Railway locomotive, Amesbury, at Treffgarne, Nant Y Coy, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Railway works at Balaclava 1855
British navvies commence work on the construction of a railway line between Balaclava and Sebastopol in the Crimea

Laying railway track
Gangs of railway labourers work on the laying of a new section of track running beneath a bridge. The lamps held by the navvies cast spectral traces of light across the gloomy atmospheric scene

Track laying - using a bulldozer
A Caterpillar bulldozer being operated during track laying by the Wimpey construction company. Nightime engineering works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Laying railway tracks at night
A very atmospheric shot of a steam engine and cranes aiding the laying of a new set of railway tracks. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Laying Railway Tracks
Three construction workers guide a large rail into position. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Manchester Ship Canal - Creating a new dock
Workmen operate a temporary pulley-based device used in the process of the construction of a new dock for the Manchester Ship Canal

Rusyn People - Hungary
Rusyns - an Eastern Slavic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language (or dialect) known as Rusyn. This appears to be a team working on a railway in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary

Rail Construction 1836
An extensive team of navvies build a retaining wall near Part Street, Camden Town, London

Tunnelling / Kilsby / Shaft
The Head Gear at the Great Shaft during the construction of the Kilsby Tunnel

Digging a Rail Cutting
The construction of the Tring Cutting. Railway navvies dig out the earth and rock by hand with the spoil lifted up to the top of the bank by horse- powered winches

Union Pacific Track Laid
Laying track for the Union Pacific as it extends towards the western territories

DIVERS AND NORTHFLEET
Divers prepare to descend to investigate the wreck of the Northfleet which sank after a collision, drowning some 300 navvies bound for Australia to build railways there

Building Blackfriars Station, City of London
The construction of Blackfriars Station, looking towards Saint Pauls Cathedral in the City of London

Blasting Rocks, Linslade
Navvies blasting rocks at Linslade

Roads / Navvies
Navvies working in a trench

Navvies working at Upminster Station, Havering
Navvies at work on the line at Upminster Station in the London Borough of Havering, Greater London, not far from the border with Essex

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