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alxndr
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Don't think it's been mentioned here yet, Network Rail tweeted saying that they've wired Brinkworth and included a couple of photographs.
https://twitter.com/networkrailwest/status/906167564706963462
https://twitter.com/networkrailwest/status/906167564706963462
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Helpful, thanks. So it will be possible to go from P1 to S Wales and from P2 to Temple Meads, and vv of course?
Yes - the present headshunt is extended to connect with the Down Filton, the Down Reception is extended to become the new headshunt.
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Many thanks. Will the platform roads be bidirectional? Will it keep the diamond Xing at Stoke Gifford Junction?
Per above - only change to the track, and thus signalling layout is the headshunt Connects into the Down Filton; and the Down Reception is extended towards Filton to create a new/replacement headshunt.
In that case, have you perhaps accidentally mis-placed the existing trailing crossover that allows trains from platforms 3 and 4 to depart towards Filton / Temple Meads? In your diagram that no longer appears to be possible.
Quite possibly!
I am surprised that west end trackwork has not been designed to allow a train from Wales into platform 4 simultaneously with a train from Bristol into platform 3. It works in the opposite direction.
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After overnight work Twyford West looks complete.
Twyford ATS over track wires also look complete.
Strapped wire at Southbury Lane now attached to SPS.
Scaffolding at Southbury Lane completed but parapet work not started yet.
A4 London Road, parapet over tracks done. Extent of drilling may mean it will be further extended.
Twyford ATS over track wires also look complete.
Strapped wire at Southbury Lane now attached to SPS.
Scaffolding at Southbury Lane completed but parapet work not started yet.
A4 London Road, parapet over tracks done. Extent of drilling may mean it will be further extended.
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I took a run over to Yate station as I espied that a movement from Swindon Transfer to Yate was in progress on RTT.
Quite a setup in the station car park, a 'shipping container' cum office, rest room with en-suite wc with the red and white plastic temporary wall barriers marking the route within the car park for the double decker buses to follow. A mobile generator was positioned at the end of the shipping container thingy to provide power for lighting in said container as well as for boiling the kettle and powering the microwave. A second mobile generator was, like the first, sited in a hired-in trailer to provide lighting on the inside of a large gazebo equipped with temporary seating bolted to the car park surface presumably with largish rawbolts. One First Bus double decker was in use and a second, standby vehicle, was parked up in the north end of the car park. This had increased to two dds and a coach when I passed the station on Tuesday 05/09.
However, Saturday nights sleep was disturbed by the continual thumping of the cylinders for the piles which reverberated through my house and Sunday morning whilst waiting for the bus I was able to view the efforts of the Saturday nights work by seeing two sets of capped cylinders which I presume will be for an upright stantion and a diagonal support where two OHL wire sections starts / finishes.
Tuesday, I purposely traveled on the top deck of the bus and passing through Westerleigh village I could see many uprights in position on the down side only of the line towards Parkway Station.
Yesterday, I detoured on my return home after my midweek visit to the supermarket and parked on one of the overbridges at Chipping Sodbury that leads nowhere except a dead end but could see no evidence of any work being done from the western portal of CS tunnel towards Westerleigh Junction apart from capped piles on the down side only. Nearer to home I stopped off at Wapley bridge, the one depicted in the time lapse video on Network Rail's website, and here there was much more evidence of progress. All the uprights seemed to be in place from the bridge to Westerleigh Junction itself and from the bridge eastwards towards the Sodbury tunnel so the work site at that time could have on the curve of the line not visible from either of the two bridges I visited. There is a third bridge which I can visit between these two but for today I'll be taking a different bus route towards Bristol and I'll report back any noticeable activity on the stretch of the line between Coalpit Heath and Winterbourne.
Quite a setup in the station car park, a 'shipping container' cum office, rest room with en-suite wc with the red and white plastic temporary wall barriers marking the route within the car park for the double decker buses to follow. A mobile generator was positioned at the end of the shipping container thingy to provide power for lighting in said container as well as for boiling the kettle and powering the microwave. A second mobile generator was, like the first, sited in a hired-in trailer to provide lighting on the inside of a large gazebo equipped with temporary seating bolted to the car park surface presumably with largish rawbolts. One First Bus double decker was in use and a second, standby vehicle, was parked up in the north end of the car park. This had increased to two dds and a coach when I passed the station on Tuesday 05/09.
However, Saturday nights sleep was disturbed by the continual thumping of the cylinders for the piles which reverberated through my house and Sunday morning whilst waiting for the bus I was able to view the efforts of the Saturday nights work by seeing two sets of capped cylinders which I presume will be for an upright stantion and a diagonal support where two OHL wire sections starts / finishes.
Tuesday, I purposely traveled on the top deck of the bus and passing through Westerleigh village I could see many uprights in position on the down side only of the line towards Parkway Station.
Yesterday, I detoured on my return home after my midweek visit to the supermarket and parked on one of the overbridges at Chipping Sodbury that leads nowhere except a dead end but could see no evidence of any work being done from the western portal of CS tunnel towards Westerleigh Junction apart from capped piles on the down side only. Nearer to home I stopped off at Wapley bridge, the one depicted in the time lapse video on Network Rail's website, and here there was much more evidence of progress. All the uprights seemed to be in place from the bridge to Westerleigh Junction itself and from the bridge eastwards towards the Sodbury tunnel so the work site at that time could have on the curve of the line not visible from either of the two bridges I visited. There is a third bridge which I can visit between these two but for today I'll be taking a different bus route towards Bristol and I'll report back any noticeable activity on the stretch of the line between Coalpit Heath and Winterbourne.
adrock1976
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Is that the bridge at Severn Tunnel Junction station?
I think it must be.
Certainly is. Network Rail has done a map showing what's happening to several bridges in that area
http://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-con...stern-document-Monmouthshire-bridge-works.pdf
59CosG95
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2 to 6? I assume that's 2 catenaries, 2 contacts, and 2 autotransformer wires then.
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When do we expect to see first electric train from Paddington arriving at Reading?
Does that mean it will be continuous from Paddington to Didcot?
Mintona
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Yes..
Mintona
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In passenger service, January.
Andrewlong
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What about test runs?
I imagine that GWR will be keen to move 387s under their own power to and from Reading depot as soon as possible.
I'll take your word for it and get a photograph tomorrow!
Apologies for being off topic but there are probably people here who are familiar with the city of Bath, which I am not. In the new issue of Rail magazine (no. 835 page 40) there's a picture of Bath taken last month. The caption is about a Network Rail test train - a yellow test coach and a class 37 are visible, but to me the most noticeable feature of the picture is a huge new building seemingly being finished, about the same size as Bath Abbey. I was wondering what it is and how it came to be allowed.
Peter Mugridge
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I think it might be the Empire Hotel being refurbished?
From Google Streetview:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3...kXOzJSr84uIt6c356t_Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
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