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    Aug 02, 2021 3 minutes

    The Engineers and Contractors Victorian Innovations and Construction Methods for the Great Central Railway

    By Jeffrey A Sheard

    IN 2011, the British Newspaper Archive became available online, and this significant publication is possibly the first to use this superb facility as the main primary source for historical research.

    It provides a wonderful and vivid insight into the construction and technology used for the creation of the London Extension of the Great Central Railway – Britain’s last main line to

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