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Surprised there's that much work left to do tbh, and there's more to come later this year - replacement for that badly rusted modern footbridge at St Johns, track renewal between St Johns and Esplanade and a DfT funded UTX at Brading... linespeed improvements coming?
ISLAND LINE TO RUN UP RYDE PIER FROM EARLY MAY – BUT AFTER 6-DAY FULL LINE CLOSURE
Island Line services will once again travel up and down the historic Ryde Pier from the start of May, but
What is the UTX for - presumably something new or it would already exist??Surprised there's that much work left to do tbh, and there's more to come later this year - replacement for that badly rusted modern footbridge at St Johns, track renewal between St Johns and Esplanade and a DfT funded UTX at Brading... linespeed improvements coming?
ISLAND LINE TO RUN UP RYDE PIER FROM EARLY MAY – BUT AFTER 6-DAY FULL LINE CLOSURE
Island Line services will once again travel up and down the historic Ryde Pier from the start of May, but
One may well ask if they considered the matter and put out a press release explaining their view.
AIUI they were not in a position to specify the rail pier repairs at the time the main Brading work was underway, the pier was not surveyed until some time later, and I’m sure it was always known it would happen later, but I’m sure this was discussed in an earlier thread. The basic question about why it couldn’t all be rolled up into one job keeps coming round though, I doubt it’s as simple an answer as ‘yeah, just crack on…’
At least now there's a segregated walking route along the tramway pier, no more having to dodge the traffic on the Wightlink pier.
The Isle of Wight Island Line closed in September for "intensive and complex" repair work to the Ryde Pier structure.
Network Rail said engineers had installed 590m of new rail and replace(d) 450 worn-out wooden sleepers with new composite versions, which are more resilient in extreme weather.
Island Line reopens after eight months of refurbishment work
The Island Line was closed for extensive repairs and refurbishment in September 2024.www.bbc.co.uk
Well it’s roughly a 600m pier and the BBC piece says they’ve installed 590m of new rail. Is that really correct for replacing ‘the track’ - ie both rails, or have they actually replaced 1180m of rail? These stats they publish are so often a bit suspect…
I don't think it receives any maintenance, it is even out of bounds for road rail machines.
A wicked part of me wants to say it's the second track bolted together, that's keeping the whole darn thing from falling into the Solent...
A wicked part of me wants to say it's the second track bolted together, that's keeping the whole darn thing from falling into the Solent...
And for the whole of the bank holiday weekend. There's a very limited service until 18:00 using a chartered in trip boat.
Suddenly, Bedhampton station's LSWR era footbridge doesn't seen as rickety as I had previously thought.
The charter boat stops when the crew’s working hours run out. As it did last night, meaning that I was faced with a 2-hr wait for the car ferry to Fishbourne (though since that was running late I luckily managed to catch an earlier one, so avoiding a 3-hr late arrival home). Unlike on previous similar occasions the promised minibus connecting from Fishbourne did turn up (eventually) - arriving in Ryde just in time to see the last train of the day running rather pointlessly up the pier.