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What's the meaning of the title?

posted 17 years ago by higgs_boson
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I don't recall any reference to the term 'navigator' nor any reference in the movie to navigation. Anyone know or care to guess why this title was chosen? Were the filmmakers drawing an analogy between railroad building and something else?

[–] Tengsted 17 years ago

A Navigator, abbreviated to Navvie, were the people who firstly built the canal network in Britian, and then the Railways in the 1800's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvies

[–] sjbrook1 14 years ago

In the UK, men who do heavy physical work on the roads, railway lines etc. are known as "navvies", short for "navigators".