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Train Approaching Watford Tunnel, Hertfordshire
London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, London & North Western Railway, and British Railways, London Midland Region1905-1948
National Railway Museum
York, United Kingdom
From London Midland & Scottish Railway Collection. Train approaching Watford tunnel, Hertfordshire, about 1840.
Watford tunnel was opened in 1838, and was on the London & Birmingham Railway, later amalgamated into the London & North Western Railway, then the London, Midland & Scottish Railway.
Building tunnels was extremely dangerous work. Navvies were killed and injured by falling rocks or earth, and in explosions caused by gunpowder used to loosen the earth and rock.
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- Title: Train Approaching Watford Tunnel, Hertfordshire
- Creator: London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, London & North Western Railway, British Railways, London Midland Region
- Date Created: 1905-1948
- Location Created: United Kingdom
- Type: photographs
- Rights: Copyright Expired
- External Link: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co423016
- Medium: glass; paper (fibre product)
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