Cutting and retaining walls, London
Cutting and retaining wall at Albion Road, Kilburn to West Hampstead, London. The photograph was taken circa 1897. J.T. Firbank was the contractor who built this section of the Railway (Contract No.7). Although these tracks are being used during construction, they are not the temporary contractor's rails that are usually seen. They are most likely the permanent way of the Metropolitan Railway, and the building work in progress is probably the widening of this cutting in order for Great Central metals to be laid alongside.
Digital Reference: L1301
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - circa 1897
Contributor: Leicestershire County Council
Type: , 161mm
Format: 118mm, 161mm
Copyright: Leicestershire County Council
Source: S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (part of S. W. A. Newton Collection, copy of glass plate negative)
Identifier: Newton - D 4/3
