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Train station excavation

20 Sep 2024

John McGoldrick, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ curator of industrial history with a pair of huge stone sleepers, used to secure tracks at the Marsh Lane railway station in the years before wooden sleepers were employed. The sleepers still show the holes where railway spikes were driven into them.

Train station excavation: John McGoldrick, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ curator of industrial history with a pair of huge stone sleepers, used to secure tracks at the Marsh Lane railway station in the years before wooden sleepers were employed. The sleepers still show the holes where railway spikes were driven into them.
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