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Earth-boring machine creating a "thrust bore" under the railway at Reading in 1962. The work was being carried out for the Southern Gas Board, to take two gas-pipes, 18 inches in diameter. It was believed to be the largest "thrust-bore" operation in the country at the time. There are several onlookers in the trench in which the machine is working. 1960-1969 : photograph from the collection of Reading Museum and Art Gallery, reproduced on page 62 of the book, "Reading in the News, " by Susan Read

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