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Title

Driving The Clay Cross Tunnel: Navvies On The Derby-Leeds Railway

Publisher

Scarthin Books, Derbyshire

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

ISBN 10

090775807X

ISBN 13

9780907758075

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Signed by Author(s)

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Transport and Machinery

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When George Stephenson first surveyed the route of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Leeds, he realised that the major engineering challenge was to drive a tunnel beneath Clay Cross, then a tiny hamlet. This book tells how, once opposition had been overcome and the Bill steered through parliament, the engineer, Frederick Swanwick, set hundreds of navvies to work to drive the tunnel; how they shattered the peace of the village with their drinking and fighting, as they faced privation, maiming and death to complete the task. When the work was done and the navvies left, Stephenson and his Clay Cross Company stayed on. Tunnel and Company together transformed Clay Cross from a quiet rural community into a roaring industrial town..

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