Railway Navvies of the SVR
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The canals of Britain were known as Inland Navigations and the labourers and tradesmen who built them became known as 'Navvies'. As canal building turned to railway building in the 19th century, the name stuck and the Railway Navvies, and their exploits, became almost part of British folklore.
Very little evidence remains of the thousands of men who would have been employed in building the Severn Valley Railway, other than newspaper reports, which unfortunately focus almost entirely on either accidents or court appearances.
- 1876 "Two workmen have been killed and two seriously injured through a great fall of earth in a new railway tunnel near Bewdley"[1]
