Worst Jobs building the railway

Question 1

Engine Cleaner

Answer 1

They had to get into the fire box
They had to sit and shift 6-7 tonnes of coal
They had to work all day in a dusty hole under a train

Question 2

Navvy: Barrow Runner

Answer 2

They would dig huge holes with a shovel
They would pull the wheel barrow up a steep hill with a horse pulling the strain
Transport 20 tonnes

Question 3

Navvy: Packing Ballast

Answer 3

By the time they had finished leveling the ballast they would have shoveled …… (can’t read your writing!!!)
However, they had to dig 20 tonnes

Question 4

Navvy: Tunnel Digger

Answer 4

12 hours a day

People would die due to naked flames or dynamite