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Construction of the Metropolitan and District Railway

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Construction of the Metropolitan and District Railway

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1866

A view of the construction site at Craven Hill, Paddington; the triangular wooden structures are windlasses - a system of windlass and buckets was used to remove the spoil from the tunnelling works.

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M866METPCM Photographs of the construction of the Metropolitan District Railway, 1866-68
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Institution of Civil Engineers

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