Navvies

Thus it was that on many a "morning after," only three or four "Navvies" would put in appearance on time, and the sleepy and indolent remainder might not straggle in until afternoon or even the following day.

Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

The minister to whose happy destiny it had fallen to gratify the large appetites and reckless consuming powers of a class now first known in our social hierarchy as "Navvies," was hailed as a second Pitt.

Endymion Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Today, many of the jobs carried out by Navvies have disappeared, replaced by giant machines that move forward along their own freshly laid railway lines lay concrete sleepers and railway tracks as they move forward to create new railway routes.

Australian Story Online - Chapter 2 2009

Further comments on the lives of Australian Navvies and the songs they sang follow in this short description by Basil Fuller that may assist those interested in researching to add to this study of railway songs and poems.

Australian Story Online - Chapter 2 2009

The Navvies carried out timber sleeper cutting in the early years of Australian Railways, as they laid lines through the virgin Australian Bush.

Australian Story Online - Chapter 2 2009

Navvies were eating out of newspaper parcels, and drinking tea in vast saucerless mugs like china tumblers.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

‘Infernal Navvies’, indeed, rather glory in the name.

The Three Clerks 2004

The first major workforce on the line were in fact ... were about 500 British Navvies who'd been imported from Britain, in 1854 and 1855.

THE NORTHERN LINKS 2000

After those British Navvies arrived, the NSW Government sought to, saw to it for various reasons that no more British labourers were imported.

THE NORTHERN LINKS 2000

Navvies were eating out of newspaper parcels, and drinking tea in vast saucerless mugs like china tumblers.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933