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navvy
noun
navvy
navvy
noun
steam navvy

navvy <a navvy; navvies> N

navvy ARCHIT

navvy N

steam navvy

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The building of the line required over a thousand navvies and cost the lives of thirty-two of them, seriously injuring 140 others.
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The navvies had been brought in to help construct the railway, and fighting broke out between them and the locals on a number of occasions.
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It was to take many years for the navvies to build this line.
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A single track runs through the middle (it would eventually have two lines) while the workers (navvies) gather in the mid-distance under a shaft.
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Some 1,600 navvies and 70 horses were used to build the 18mi km line.
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The same field also has grassed-over rubble remaining from cottages built by the construction navvies.
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The oldest child, wearing borrowed clothing too old for her, tries to control her wayward brother, who is playing with the navvies' wheelbarrow.
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It left 14 workers (or navvies) dead and three injured.
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The navvies recorded their triumphs, and more frequent trials and tribulations, in song.
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More than 5000 navvies worked on the building during its construction, with up to 2000 on site at one time during the peak building phase.
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