Y Ddraig Coch
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Some pictures of the recent tunnel works at Blaenau Ffestiniog taken by Total Rail Solutions.
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Blaenau Ffestiniog partial tunnel collapse (24/10)
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krus_aragon
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The orange army are at the site in droves. Here's a view from across the road:
No point trying to catch a train there yet.
They're also still hard at work on improving drainage north of Dolgarrog station.
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What have they done within the tunnel?
At this point giving every user of the line a car, teaching them to drive if they need to, paying for their insurance, maintenance and petrol for say five years would probably have had a better BCR.
krus_aragon
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I suspect the BCR is Beyond Comprehension and Rationality. (But I won't speak out against keeping my local branch line open...)
Rock bolting to hold it all together
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You can see that is what they've done, but I find it hard to believe that slate is strong enough to retain the bolts. It is surely too friable?
krus_aragon
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I don't think the slate extends down to the level of the tunnel. If it did, they'd have been quarrying the slate out years before the LNWR set about building its tunnel into the area. (The fact that the tunnel entrance is surrounded by slate spoil heaps is a little misleading.)
Slate isn't very friable ("crumbleable") but [some of] it can be cleaved. That's why there are bloody great heaps of waste all around Blaenau (and millions of roofs) completely undamaged by frost. Somehow they knew whether a big block was worth sawing up then splitting, if not it was just dumped.
pdeaves
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Any news on when Dolgarrog reopened (or may reopen), please? Wiki claims reopening on 15 December but previous comment here suggests that in practice this was unlikely to say the least!
Y Ddraig Coch
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TfW Journey check today quotes...….
https://www.journeycheck.com/tfwrail/
Although I don't believe it has opened yet to actaully be closed again.
https://www.journeycheck.com/tfwrail/
Although I don't believe it has opened yet to actaully be closed again.
Y Ddraig Coch
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Network Rail and especially the Conwy Valley Rail Partnership who are very pro active on social media would have made an announcement I'm sure to "celebrate" the reopening if it had happened.
TfW will be doing that so passengers don't think they can get off at Dalgarrog, but as the station is physically inaccessible, the pick-up only restriction doesn't count for anything as a prospective passenger wouldn't be able to board anyway...
Y Ddraig Coch
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It wasn't showing Dolgarrog at all on the planners for a while so someone has physically added the change to the system for some reason.
PHILIPE
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Somebody tweeted TFW on Saturday to say no publicity re Dolgarrog being closed so they quickly added the fact it was closed to the Station Section of Journey Check reading that it had just closed
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