A 43-RB face shovel excavating chalk for the cutting under the Luton-Dunstable railway line on Section A1 of the London to Yorkshire Motorway (M1)

Date:
5 Aug 1958
Location:
M1 Motorway, Structure 9 Luton-Dunstable Railway Bridge, M1, Caddington, Central Bedfordshire
Reference:
JLP01/08/052143
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The caption beneath the corresponding album print reads '(...) The excavated material is then hauled a distance of about 7 miles over existing roads to A2 Section. The three cuts under the railway, for the abutments and centre pier of the proposed bridge, were made during three week-end occupations'. Section A of the M1 is between Pepperstock and Ridgmont in Bedfordshire.

This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Content

This is part of the Series: JLP01/08 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection

Keywords

Mid 20th Century Motorway, Construction