Box Tunnel
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Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line between Bath and Chippenham. The 1.83-mile tunnel was the world's longest railway tunnel when it was completed in 1841.
A winter view of the western portal
The west portal
An engineering drawing of the longitudinal cross-section of Box Tunnel
The sun rises in near alignment to the entrance to Box Tunnel, Bath, UK on 9 April 2017
Navvy
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Navvy, a clipping of navigator or navigational engineer, mainly refers to the manual labourers working on major civil engineering projects, though it is also used in North America to refer to mechanic
Box Tunnel
…tunnel. This practice and water ingress exceeding the calculated volumes, has been attributed as causing most of the deaths that occurred. About 100 navvies were killed during the tunnel's construction. Additional pumping and drainage were required during and after its construction. Large amounts of water…
A "navvy" depicted in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work
Wooden huts at the former Edmondthorpe and Wymondham railway station, the last surviving navvy housing in the UK and protected as a Grade II listed building.
Navvies constructing the railway between Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden (ca 1900).