Contemporary Account of SCR Construction: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald - 1873, 2 August

[The Settle & Carlisle Railway] ...

runs through a very sparsely populated country, and of course some special provisions had to be made for the accommodation of the numerous workers. To this end 116 temporary huts have been erected along the whole length, an inspection of some of which convinced us that for personal comfort they might compare very favourably with the farm houses in the immediate vicinity.

Acknowledgements

The contemporary accounts were transcribed by Mark R. Harvey from digitised versions of newspapers accessed via the British Newspaper Archive (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/).

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