Blackpool - Manchester Electrification

[GRALISTAIR]

Sorry if this has been asked already but is Preston to Blackpool closed every Sunday from now on, throughout the Summer?

Short answer - no .

Here is the current list but does not include the Christmas New Year blockades

http://nw-sparks.co.uk/works.php

 

[LDECRexile]

Codville has kindly sent shots of track changes at Kirkham and Poulton.

I've added them to his album here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157676830624615

and to the Combined Volume here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633

Thank you Codville.

 

[LDECRexile]

Wrinkley has kindly sent shots he took at Burnley, Burnden and Green Lane yesterday.

I've added them to his album here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157654034635234

and to the Combined Volume here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633

Thank you Wrinkley

 

[Bullfield WEst]

Passed by Bolton Station yesterday. 2 sections of the "Skybridge" appreared to be ready and an Orangeman at the interchange was cutting a large hole in the wall to receive it. It could well be in now or maybe tonight?
Photo's to follow.

 

[wrinkley]

Wrinkley has kindly sent shots he took at Burnley, Burnden and Green Lane.

It's Bolton not Burnley.

 

[Bullfield WEst]

Passed by Bolton Station yesterday. 2 sections of the "Skybridge" appreared to be ready and an Orangeman at the interchange was cutting a large hole in the wall to receive it. It could well be in now or maybe tonight?
Photo's to follow.

Photo link.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenward/34193091145/in/album-72157676374958944/

 

[LDECRexile]

It's Bolton not Burnley.

Gulp.

 

[Mordac]

It's Bolton not Burnley.

It was a palindrome!

 

[snowball]

It was a palindrome!

Maybe you mean it was alliterative or assonant. A palindrome has to have the same spelling forwards as backwards, like "Madam, I'm Adam", which is a rhyme as well as a palindrome.

 

[Elecman]

Maybe you mean it was alliterative or assonant. A palindrome has to have the same spelling forwards as backwards, like "Madam, I'm Adam", which is a rhyme as well as a palindrome.

As in Bolton Notlob

 

[Mordac]

As in Bolton Notlob

Indeed, I'm glad someone else was able to explain it.

 

[PDG1949]

Photo link.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenward/34193091145/in/album-72157676374958944/

Great developments - the guy's name's not Luke, by any co-incidence ?

 

[Trackman]

I've heard the old buffet bar/shop at Bolton has re-opened!
pics please

 

[Trackman]

Wrinkley has kindly sent shots he took at Burnley, Burnden and Green Lane yesterday.

I've added them to his album here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157654034635234

and to the Combined Volume here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633

Thank you Wrinkley

yes thank you , Winkley and all,

7248k 7248m Bolton.
The steel wire cages, is this something to do with the new bridge?

 

[gnolife]

As in Bolton Notlob

But I thought it was Ipswich?

 

[Joseph_Locke]

7248k 7248m Bolton.
The steel wire cages, is this something to do with the new bridge?

Yes, as is the big hole just north of them.

 

[deltic08]

Wrinkley has kindly sent shots he took at Burnley, Burnden and Green Lane yesterday.

I've added them to his album here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157654034635234

and to the Combined Volume here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633

Thank you Wrinkley

Do you mean Bolton, Burnden and Green Lane?
In photo 7244i, is the intention to straighten out the reverse curves here where the lines have been lifted to raise line speed?

 

[42626]

I see from some photos posted on a Bolton Rail FB page that the link bridge was being lifted into position last night.

 

[Joseph_Locke]

I see from some photos posted on a Bolton Rail FB page that the link bridge was being lifted into position last night.

The crane to do the lifting was being lifted in - no bridge decks yet in place, just the Ainscough crane.

 

[Joseph_Locke]

In photo 7244i, is the intention to straighten out the reverse curves here where the lines have been lifted to raise line speed?

Assuming you mean permissible speed, no. For signalling and performance reasons there's no point going much faster than 50 at this point, as the curves at the north end of the station will always be 20 (theoretical 25 but only at a massive value of cant deficiency). However, the alignment changes radically to accommodate the new 50mph lead into P5 and a straight on which to place the entrance lead to the proposed Up Loop.

 

[LDECRexile]

Do you mean Bolton, Burnden and Green Lane?

Please see posts 4295, 4297, 4298, 4299, 4300, 4301 and 4305

 

[QueensCurve]

As in Bolton Notlob

Any Monty Python viewer knows that the palindrome of Bolton is Notlob and not Ipswich.

 

[QueensCurve]

Assuming you mean permissible speed, no. For signalling and performance reasons there's no point going much faster than 50 at this point, as the curves at the north end of the station will always be 20 (theoretical 25 but only at a massive value of cant deficiency). However, the alignment changes radically to accommodate the new 50mph lead into P5 and a straight on which to place the entrance lead to the proposed Up Loop.

Is there a published final layout diagram with turnout speeds?

 

[42626]

The crane to do the lifting was being lifted in - no bridge decks yet in place, just the Ainscough crane.

I stand corrected, although the pictures appear to show a bridge section connected to the crane, there is nothing up in the air.

 

[QueensCurve]

I've heard the old buffet bar/shop at Bolton has re-opened!
pics please

Hopefully not as a Star*ucks?

 

[Joseph_Locke]

I stand corrected, although the pictures appear to show a bridge section connected to the crane, there is nothing up in the air.

unloading it onto the ground maybe?

 

[Geeves]

800 odd tones of something being delivered to Burnden Jc tonight from Crewe.

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U78343/2017/04/24/advanced

 

[Chrisyd]

According to TFGMs media centre, the first span is in place:

http://www.tfgm.com/Corporate/media_centre/Pages/News.aspx?articleId=1198

Substantial progress has been made on a crucial element of Bolton’s new, state-of-the-art transport interchange.

The first steel span making up the ‘skylink’ bridge, which will connect the interchange with Bolton railway station, was lifted into place last night by a 750 tonne crane. The work was completed outside of rail timetable hours to minimise disruption to passengers.

The span is 3.6 metres high, 3.8 metres wide, 20.1 metres long, weighs 30.5 tonnes and oversees the interchange’s bus apron.

 

[Geeves]

Was the Skylink supposed to run into the actual railway station at some point or did I imagine that? Im sure it landed where the ticket office is now on the original drawings?

It might just be me but by the time you have gone up/waited for a lift or 3 flights or stairs you could have just as easily gone out the normal entrance turned left down Newport St and arrived at the same point at the same time or perhaps even quicker!? I dont really understand the point in this bridge at all. Who wants to go all the way up there? I would have thought even a pedestrian crossing over the bus apron to a bridge to cut the corner, yeah maybe but this is stupid.

 

[Ianno87]

Hopefully not as a Star*ucks?

Doubt it. Folks of Bolton* won't know what a Double Tall Skinny Mocha Latte Frappucino is.

*I was born and grew up in Bolton, before anyone gets offended