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    Luton DART and Luton Airport Parkway Updates

    The path is still open and the access to the rear of Platform 1 is via the “hut” which has had the gate line moved 90 degrees. The first steelwork was installed in March 2020 at the start of the first lockdown.
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    Luton DART and Luton Airport Parkway Updates

    No the Kimpton Road entrance is very much still open - the access for the public has been moved about 4 or 5 times as the bridge in the Station was constructed and installed - it took a bit of doing but we even kept the access open when the bridge was slide in with the station open and live
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    Luton DART and Luton Airport Parkway Updates

    I did an update for the Luton Parkway Project (the bit in the Station that connects to the DART ) the other three parts are on my blog www.dbmbridges2.com
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    Luton DART and Luton Airport Parkway Updates

    I took the photo below the other day from the NWR bridge walkway London side above Platform 1. The grey link bridge in the post above - does very literally connect the two bridges - slotting in the gap between the new building and station - it is currently being trial assembled and will be...
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    Luton DART and Luton Airport Parkway Updates

    Hopefully once fully open the bridge will provide a great viewing platform - with over 80 glass panels on the bridge looking up and down the fasts and slow lines
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    Luton DART and Luton Airport Parkway Updates

    I have put on a link to some photos of the project work in the Station - also morelinks to the project on my blog dbmbridges2.com 1610668712 I have attached the link to another few progress videos for the Luton Parkway Project. Hopefully they will be interesting
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    GCR Bridge Project

    I didn't know it was called priory bridge - i was Network Rail SPM on the refurbishment and long timber replacement in 2013 carried out by Story Rail- it was called Dairycoats. I have attached a photo (not very good one) of a Beaver Tamper running over the bridge. I actually built a scale...
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    GCR Bridge Project

    I have worked on a good few bridges crossing four tracks over the years - I have a couple of websites that show examples - www.dbmbridges.com and www.dbmbridges2.com Project 8 Micklefield - this is a 36m span concrete pre-stressed beams carries the A1M over the Leeds - Hull & Leeds - York...
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    Work is happening on the structures - NWR CP5 contractors are looking at these. I think the Farm access bridge is possibly Earwig Lane :wink: -
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    Barrow Hill to Bolsover

    Yes the foam concrete was used to under fill the existing structure the girders and brick jack arch structure were buried under the embankment. I did a similar one in near Stockton (project 38) www.dbmbridges.com it shows the similar structure - being removed after it had been previously under...
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    Barrow Hill to Bolsover

    A few years ago as i worked on the new bridge at Staveley and demolished the old bridge BAC2 Bridge 5 Barrow Hill - http://www.dbmbridges.com/Project-24-Barrow-Hill-Demolition.php Looks like the track has now all been removed - when we built the new bridge - we had to take a T2 - even with...
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    New road bridge across railway

    It's really difficult to give a cost for a structure as it really does depend on so many variables. A lot of these have already been touched on by others previously. Land both permanent land take for the abutments and the approach roads + temporary for compounds and building the bridge -...
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    Glasgow M8 New Cutty Sark Bridge

    Really Fantastic - time lapse video showing the bridge being driven in with SPMT's. I was part of the team did the bridge on the A46 - a very similar project - http://www.dbmbridges.com/Project-3-Bingham-Railway-Bridge.php It's interesting that it seems to be called a bridge slide on the...
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    Bridge Demolition

    Hi Deltic08 - to answer your question it was a reinforced concrete Flat slab deck cast on top of the main concrete beams - The reason it was blown up was due to the Post Tension System to take all the stressing out of the structure in one movement. We had a worry that If you cut a tendon that...
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    Bridge Demolition

    Thanks for all the links - really fantastic projects. I should have remembered the selly oak project it was done the times as we did Bingham A46. I actually moved to the Birse offices that did that one but didn't get involved - I had forgotten it was so big. The demolition with explosives...
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    Bridge Demolition

    Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me please - I have two things I am trying to answer ! 1) On Christmas Day 2005 I was part of the team that carried out the demolition of the old A1 road bridge at Micklefield (Leeds - York) (Leeds - Hull) lines. The bridge was demolished with explosives...
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    Christmas Bridge Replacement at Dewsbury

    Hi - Just wanted to comment on the the Christmas project at Fall Lane. The bridge was replaced due to being under strength - It had two old cast iron facade units that carried the service walkways. The two main riveted iron decks (each weighing 54t)- brick jack arches were in a very poor...
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    Derby's Folly!

    Hi - good to see my web site being used as a source of reference. I just wanted to comment on the two projects and time scales - Thomson Street in took so long to complete for two main reasons - the services on the bridge - the interface with the water main was a huge task the 500mm dia...

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