Sutton
| Not strictly speaking to do with Sutton station directly, the couple of photographs on this page are included here as they were taken whilst the last line to Sutton was under construction, in 1928/9. |
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The contractor's temporary line in the cutting near Sutton Common
Station. The small tipping wagons were used to move the earth from cutting to
embankment. Note the temporary water tower.
photograph reproduced by arrangement with Honeywood Heritage Centre, Carshalton, courtesy of Tony Price |
| A drag excavator digging the cutting at Gander Green Lane in
October 1928. A big improvement from the days of navvies, picks, shovels and
wheelbarrows, but positively primitive when compared with the earth moving
machinery of the twentyfirst century!
photograph reproduced by arrangement with Honeywood Heritage Centre, Carshalton, courtesy of Tony Price |
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