GCR construction workers, Charwelton, Northamptonshire

These construction workers are employed in the building of the Great Central Railway in 1900. The line boasted "Rapid Travel in Luxury", but the construction process remained arduous work, especially when laying tracks in the winter mud pictured here.

Location

Northamptonshire Charwelton

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Tags

people men work worker portrait railway clothing Victorian (1837 - 1901)