Rugby. Great Central Railways goods yard
![The building of the Great Central railways goods yard in Rugby. 1920s
[The Great Central Railway was opened in 1899 and the date of this image is possibly wrong when looking at the type of steam engine used. Also surely the sidings would have surely been built in the 1890's] | IMAGE LOCATION: (Rugby Library)](https://d23iiv8m8qvdxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/7030-0-885x621.jpg "Rugby. Great Central Railways goods yard")
The building of the Great Central railways goods yard in Rugby. 1920s
[The Great Central Railway was opened in 1899 and the date of this image is possibly wrong when looking at the type of steam engine used. Also surely the sidings would have surely been built in the 1890's]
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The photograph is of a steam-powered excavator tipping spoil in to a contractors wagon at the GCR’s Rugby station circa 1898.
Note the wagon is made of substantial balks of timber and has no springs, no buffers or drawbar as would be found on a railway wagon. This is because the wagon would have to endure mistreatment – as seen in the photo with a full bucket of earth being dropped in one go.
The track is temporary being lightweight rails spiked direct to rough sawn timbers. The term ‘permanent way’, which describes the railway track and formation, was used to differentiate between this and the contractor’s temporary track.
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