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Meanwhile the bridge has all the steelwork in place and most of the blue brick cladding. Once that is finished, the next job is to refurbish a bridge over the canal.
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Coming along nicely there.
When I was looking at the freight job here, there were well over 100 bridges, many of them wooden and in poor condition, but most only 5-10m in length, over culverts and streams. The most cost effective way for us was the good old WW2 design Baliey Bridge, still made in the UK I was pleased to note!
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dazvr6
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Blimey. They don't hang around do they!
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1998 Porsche 996 C2 manual 1989 MA70 Supra Turbo (5 speed) 1996 Fiat Coupe 16v Turbo
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Scott
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Thats going to be some job creating an embankment on the left hand side of the bridge,,
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What looks right is not necessarily right, but what looks wrong is definitely not right!
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Thats going to be some job creating an embankment on the left hand side of the bridge,, Hi Scott The plan is on the left hand side to reinstate the Preci Spark car park, with a couple of pre cast concrete arches (blue brick clad) then the two Ex Reading bridge decks (to cross the road) and another couple of arches. Then there is about 300m of embankment to be built, leading to the canal bridge. It is a huge job.....
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filmidget
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Dec 14, 2017 21:46:53 GMT
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Very happy to see the new bridge progressing well... both for the heritage line and because it's providing me some nice close-to-home PICOP* shifts Saturday night/Sunday morning *Person In Charge Of Possession (of the railway, allowing engineering works that may effect the safety of trains to be carried out)
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'79 MG Midget 1500 - Still patiently awaiting attention '02 Vauxhall Astra 1.8 Elegance(!) - Better than you might think '03 Mazda MX5 - All new and shiny looking (thanks to Antony at Rust Republic) '09 Renault Clio - Needs to go.
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Dec 14, 2017 21:50:31 GMT
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Eeee, it's a few years since I did that!
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filmidget
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Dec 14, 2017 22:15:11 GMT
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Not sure why I am still doing it at this time of year!
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'79 MG Midget 1500 - Still patiently awaiting attention '02 Vauxhall Astra 1.8 Elegance(!) - Better than you might think '03 Mazda MX5 - All new and shiny looking (thanks to Antony at Rust Republic) '09 Renault Clio - Needs to go.
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Not sure why I am still doing it at this time of year! Is it because you weren't paying attention?
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kenb
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I wonder if this has been done just in time so to speak. Referring to the recent announcement that NR (aka the Government) is to hand over more control of their infrastructure to the operating train companies etc. I wonder if this had already happened, whether would they have been so obliging to the GCR.
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Dec 15, 2017 16:12:19 GMT
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Very happy to see the new bridge progressing well... both for the heritage line and because it's providing me some nice close-to-home PICOP* shifts Saturday night/Sunday morning *Person In Charge Of Possession (of the railway, allowing engineering works that may effect the safety of trains to be carried out) Ah, so back in my volunteer days, you'd've been the fella shouting "right, we've got a PWay Slack so grab a shovel and dart and get on the works train!"
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Dec 16, 2017 13:24:09 GMT
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Disappointing news that the Heritage Lottery Fund has pulled out of the Leicester "Rail Museum" project that was planned for Leicester North on the GCR. Lots of work has been done on this, but the HLF have said they will not fund the second part - £9.5M. The reasons seem to be confused.
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Dec 16, 2017 13:30:38 GMT
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Crappy news, Phil, but no real surprise.
I spend half my life dealing with governments changing their mind on rail projects.
It's the same the whole word over, as the song says.
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Dec 28, 2017 12:13:34 GMT
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Well the scaffolding is down on the South abutment and the brickwork is finished on the North abutment so the new bridge is just about finished. It is hoped that the contractors will be filling in the gap to the existing North embankment, before the action moves to the Canal bridge.
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Feb 10, 2018 17:50:17 GMT
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Disappointing news that the Heritage Lottery Fund has pulled out of the Leicester "Rail Museum" project that was planned for Leicester North on the GCR. Lots of work has been done on this, but the HLF have said they will not fund the second part - £9.5M. The reasons seem to be confused. I hear on the grapevine that the project has been cancelled completely this week. Would have been a good attraction and easy to visit
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Feb 12, 2018 16:10:56 GMT
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Hi Tigerfox Well certainly the WilkinsonEyre designed project is finished....but it has been realised how much sense a museum project makes for the Leicester end of the GCR, so a "Plan B" may well emerge...but not in the near future and more modest in cost with a more conventional/cheaper building I expect. In the meantime "Tornado" has been visiting the Northern section of the GCR.
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News of the APT Power Car from the Heritage Centre Website "New for 2018! The Crewe Heritage Centre has long been home to our stunning Advanced Passenger Train Prototype (APT-P), we are very pleased to announce the arrival of the only other surviving APT-P vehicle. Power Car (49006) has joined us after completing the journey from Coventry Electric Traction Museum, the Power Car will be a stand alone exhibit allowing visitors to walk through the heart of the train. "
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Mar 24, 2018 10:53:49 GMT
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The sun was shining and so I went out with my trusty paint brush and tin of "Windcutter Grey" paint...... From this To this in two hours!
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Mar 24, 2018 11:40:00 GMT
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On my current project, the (Japanese) depot designers had come up with a right pig of a set up, with lots of opportunities for a single failure to block the whole place. So my team came up with a far better layout, but the Project Director, being a muppet and even more dangerous, an ambitious one, couldn't understand the problem. Fortuitously, one of my guys had just shipped his Hornby train set over from Kenya to Manila, so we set up two replica depots, as designed and as we proposed. Running a train around them, it was like watching a mist lifting, as understanding entered his little power addled mind. Job done! Now we have a whole set up behind where we sit, and if anyone asks what we're doing, we tell 'em we're simulating full timetabled operation for the North-South Commuter Railway - Phase 1. Quite a few just walk away shaking their heads.
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Last Edit: Mar 24, 2018 12:12:37 GMT by georgeb
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Mar 24, 2018 15:09:46 GMT
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Nice one George.....I'm afraid that I have no such excuse/reason for my (interest that dares not speak its name)layout up in the roof......oh.... it is for the Grandchildren, I nearly forgot!
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