ONE of the last great feats of the age of the Victorian navvies will be recreated at Didcot Railway Centre this weekend. While creations of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel like the Clifton ...

Irish labourers who helped build the railways should have had a London Overground line named after them, a historian has said. 'Navvies' were employed in the 19th and 20th centuries to help build ...

A national monument to the navvies who built the the United Kingdom's railways has been rededicated. About 200 people attended a ceremony at the Grade II-listed monument in Otley, West Yorkshire, on ...

He stands proudly astride his labour - the cutting of the "Big Ditch" - in his waistcoat and neckerchief. The black and white photograph captures the toil required from thousands of men to build the ...

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LOOK around the countryside and you’ll see fantastic feats of engineering: railways that stretch from one end of the country to the other, towering viaducts, long networks of canals, huge reservoirs ...

Now, finally, Lawrence Hannan, and the other navvies who put their lives on the line to deliver an engineering feat of colossal importance to the prosperity of the twin cities of Manchester and ...