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Just been through Buckshaw Parkway station.
2 TTCs on the Down side through the station, then one TTC on the Up side and registration arms attached to the station footbridge awaiting ‘danglies’. No wires yet.
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Just been through Buckshaw Parkway station.
2 TTCs on the Down side through the station, then one TTC on the Up side and registration arms attached to the station footbridge awaiting ‘danglies’. No wires yet.
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LDECRexile
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John Boy sent us these shots of it last week, could you see any progress beyond them?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157697871447145
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LDECRexile
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Dear Baz
Welcome! Quite an entrance you've made!
Please may I add your fab shots to the Combined Volume of photos of electrification of "our" line, which is here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
If I may, may I also use any future shots you send, without having to ask you each time?
Every photo and video in the album (and its brothers on the Liverpool-Manchester electrification) is contributed with no money ever changing hands in either direction, but you retain copyright of your work.
59CosG95
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Afternoon all! Back from sunny Castle Donington, with a suntan and no voice (Guns 'n' Roses being the main culprit), with this week's hastily cobbled together update for the GSoP.
GSoP Post 9.0
Manchester Victoria - Preston; State of Play, week beginning 11th June 2018.
28 bases & 177 (at a guess/at most) masts still missing.
All mileages from Manchester Victoria. Bridge mileages are approximated where noted.
1. Man Vic Station (West End) - Man Vic West Jct - Deal Street Jct; 0m 0ch to 0m 32ch
Fully wired 2013-15.
2. Deal Street Jct - Salford Central (East End); 0m 32ch to 0m 59ch
Fully masted. Limit of electrification is currently at 0m 46ch; SPS is up along the unwired stretch.
3. Salford Central; 0m 59ch
Fully masted, most SPS (Small Part Steelwork e.g. dangly bits) up. No wires.
4. Salford Central (West End) - Windsor Bridge South Jct; 0m 59ch to 1m 46ch
All bases in place, mostly with masts, no catenary or earth wires. Two runs of Earth wire are up.
5. Windsor Bridge South Jct - Windsor Bridge North Jct (inc. Salford Crescent); 1m 46ch to 1m 70ch
No catenary/contact wires. All masts now up through P2, by evidence of the Earth wire being strung betwixt them. The bespoke "right triangle" fixings on one of the footbridges have turned out to be fixings for dangly bits. Each side has two stovepipes; one for a registration arm, one for an earth wire.
Both tracks to the east of Salford Crescent (the Up & Down Bolton thru P1, and the Up Bolton immediately to the east of that) are completely bedanglied through the station.
S Jct looks ready for wiring, but mast gaps still present at N Jct. Lots of SPS up immediately north of Salford Cres.; including on all stalactites beneath the bridge at the south end on all lines.
6. Windsor Bridge North Jct - Clifton (South End); 1m 70ch to 4m 57ch
Many bases in place, some with masts, no wires.
At Pendleton (the Old Station site), just north of Broughton Rd Bridge (2m 26ch), the Pendleton retaining wall has been cut back in several places to make room for bases (which are all now in).
Between Frederick Rd & Broughton Rd (2m 26ch) bridges, most masts are up, except on the "problem bases" around Broughton Rd. The 3 bases, between Broughton Rd Bridge & Cockrobin Bridge (approx. 2m 51ch) have all now been driven home.
The "problem base" north of Cockrobin Bridge may be a TTC (Twin Track Cantilever) on the s'bound side (see photo A020m).
Dangly bits up near Agecroft, but no work on missing bases in the walled stretch north of Agecroft Rd.
Steelwork north of Park House Rd Bridge looks complete.
Structure going up between Agecroft Rd bridge and Clifton, nr Lumns Lane.
Lot of masts with SPS up on the southern approach to Clifton.
7. Clifton Station; 4m 57ch
1 boomed TTC (with SPS), no wires. Base for another TTC in behind the southbound platform.
8. Clifton (North End) - Kearsley (South End); 4m 57ch to 7m 57ch
Most/all bases in place, large no. of masts, no wires.
Concrete slab base curing north of the former Dixon Fold station site (around the new footbridge, approx. 6m 00ch); most/all masts up there, with lots of stovepipes up.
Looking south from Kearsley, all masts that are up appear to be fully kitted out with SPS.
9. Kearsley Station; 7m 57ch
All bases in place, no masts, no wires.
10. Kearsley (North End) - Farnworth (South End); 7m 57ch to 8m 31ch
All masts (almost all with booms), no wires. Dangly bits starting to appear at the Kearsley end. Farnworth tunnel (8m 25ch) has all its registration arms in place.
11. Farnworth Station; 8m 31ch
All bases in place, 1 or 2 masts, no wires. Looks pretty much ready for wiring south of the Farnworth Station Footbridge.
12. Farnworth (North End) - Moses Gate (South End); 8m 31ch to 9m 06ch
A pair of bases & squat masts are up between Farnworth Station footbridge and Rawson St Bridge (approx. 8m 44ch). Two bases have now gone in in the southbound cess, awaiting masts; one each side of the "squat portal" uprights.
Fully boomed and fully bedanglied TTCs up between Rawson St & the Balustraded Bridge (approx. 8m 56ch); this stretch now looks wire-ready.[/COLOR]
The Gravity "Base of the century" just south of the Squeeze Belly Entry footbridge (approx. 8m 67ch) is now curing away nicely, with shuttering removed.
13. Moses Gate Station; 9m 06ch
Fully masted, no wires
14. Moses Gate (North End) - Bolton (South End); 9m 06ch to 10m 50ch
Weston St to Moses Gate looks almost ready for wiring.
Many bases, many masts, no wires. SPS and Tensorex drums appearing on some masts/cantilevers around Burnden Jct (10m 09ch).
All uprights appear to be up on both sides of Lever St footbridge; a multi-track portal is up immediately to the south of the bridge. To the north (on the east side), a TTC with reduced-height registration arms is up.
Orlando St Bridge appears to be fully "stovepiped".
15. Bolton Station; 10m 50ch
Through the station, all lines are fully masted with the exception of P1 (1 mast missing between Weston St & Newport St bridges) and P5 (1 mast missing between Weston St & Bradshawgate Tunnel), according to the observations of Reg.
The 1st TTC up over P1/2 has now been bedanglied; in total, P1/2 is covered by 4 TTCs and 3 STCs. P2 still requires its "termination mast".
Platforms 98% open to public; the 2% not open is a fenced-off section of canopy support to the right of signal "MP9239". P2 buffers look finished. Canopies look complete.
Earth wires now going in; the first one runs parallel to P3, from the southern end almost up to the road bridge at the northern end. A second one (parallel to P5) is up, and it extends south through Burnden as far as the eye can see.
Two sets of chalked "hieroglyphs" are etched into the bridge deck of Trinity St over P3/4; possible locations for stovepipes? Additionally, bolts & brackets are now drilled into the glazed brick retaining wall opposite P1.
16. Bolton (North End) - Lostock (South End); 10m 50ch to 13m 52ch
Newport St bridge has now had studs/brackets of some kind drilled in. The run of masts between Newport St & the NW end of P5 now have their earth wire affixed. Just east of Newport St Bridge, a TTC (unbedanglied) has now gone up on the southbound side.
Between Newport Street Bridge & Moor Lane (the Bullfield Tunnels area), the tunnels are bedanglied throughout, with Aerial Earth Wire (AEW) brackets up over both tracks' respective tunnels/bridges.
Immediately NW of Newport St, one of the concrete bases that was poured over the weekend of May 5th has now had a mast affixed; the other mast for the other base is lying in wait.
Gt. Moor St. bridge now has a stovepipe in on the Down side. The most recently cured base, fresh from unwrapping, has now had a mast & two dangly assemblies put up (see pic. A300k; between Great Moor St. & Dawes St. bridges). Of the "3 amigos" (the three closest masts to Great Moor St. Bridge), 2 now have Tensorex Drums fitted and the other has its dangly bits cabled-tied down(see pic. A320k).
Cable ducting troughs laid between Black Horse St & New St on the Down side, in the cess; 5 masts (with a 6th waiting to be erected) are now up in this gap.
The overrun along the line to Blackburn (as far as Bradshawgate Tunnel) looks nearly ready for SPS & wires.
East of Dean Clough Bridge (12m 26ch), 2 "failed" driven pile bases on the southbound side now have formwork for concrete gravity pad replacements in position, awaiting the concrete pour.
Between Dean Clough Bridge and 'the' Ladybridge (next one further west), all masts appear to be up, with cantilever assembles affixed (and folded out of place).
Thence, between 'the' Ladybridge and Beaumont Rd, all masts of all varieties are now up. Earth wires are already being strung!
All bases are in place between Beaumont Rd & Lostock station; only 5 of them are empty now.
Masts have started to appear immediately south of Lostock; at the extreme southern end of the station, a twin track portal with SPS has been erected, with the 4-track portal over Lostock Jct (13m 39ch) immediately south of that now being boomed too. 3 "failed" protruding, uncapped pile bases are on the Wigan Line; one assumes that gravity pad replacements will eventually be in the offing.
More masts around the switchgear box are sprouting dangly bits, switchgear kit etc.
A UTX has been installed in the "vee" in Lostock Jct, for buried service access.
Work currently going on with stacks of cable ducting on the Wigan Line - possibly from the substation?
Another TTC (with boom) has gone up on the Wigan Line.
17. Lostock Station; 13m 52ch
Switchgear box delivered 6th April '18.
Two bases in behind the Down line platform north of the station bridge; both bear TTCs (and both are currently sans boom).
18. Lostock (North End) - Horwich Pkwy (South End); 13m 52ch to 15m 50ch
Two more UTXs have been installed in the "vee" between the two lines, to the north of the station.
Immediately north of the station, the closest TTCs to the platforms have now sprouted part of their switchgear kit.
For a mile between the stations, all wires up from the "Golf Course" Footbridge (approx. 14m 04ch) to half a mile south of Horwich Pkwy (approx. 15m 10ch). Earth wires have gone up on the Down side immediately north of the station; these presumably extend to the existing wired section.
All masts appear to be in place with SPS for the remaining sections between the two, including the A6027/De Havilland Way overbridge, which now has dangly bits mounted on the walls.
19. Horwich Parkway Station; 15m 50ch
Two new TTCs up on the south end of the platforms; one portal and one TTC to go up. (Thanks again to @Joseph_Locke for that gen.) Bedanglied TTCs now up through the station, with more to erect.
20. Horwich Pkwy (North End) - Blackrod (South End); 15m 50ch to 17m 14ch
All masts appear to be up NW of Horwich Pkwy to the M61 bridge. Earth/AT wires linking 9 masts together between the 2 stations, heading north (on the Up side) from immediately north of the M61 bridge (approx. 16m 29ch).
More Earth/AT wires are now up immediately NW of the footbridge at the NW end of Horwich Parkway Car Park, on the Down side (N'bound); the footbridge in question has also been sandwiched by some very complex-looking steelwork (presumably for the reduced clearances).
SPS appearing on portals near Blackrod, and SPS assemblies have been folded out of the way on the station's southern approach.
Work has resumed on the footbridge that will replace Red Moss foot crossing; complex portal/masts are up there too.
21. Blackrod Station; 17m 14ch
Some more bases in place, no masts, no wires. Empty mast base at the southern end (not the northern end, as was writ in error).
22. Blackrod (North End) - Adlington (South End); 17m 14ch to 19m 15ch
Lots of masts up just north of Blackrod, with SPS all fitted. Some base replacement work occurred over 17th/18th Feb to replace failed bases. Successful bases have masts up with SPS on.
23. Adlington Station; 19m 15ch
Most bases in place, 2 masts up (one on each side), no wires.
24. Adlington (North End) - Chorley (South End); 19m 15ch to 22m 20ch
2 short stretches of wire on the s'bound track.
Bespoke mast fixings going up on Yarrow Viaduct (21m 26ch at the southern end); 3 of the 4 are in place. The southern pair are now in; work on the northern pair has stopped after the alleged discovery of large void within the structure.
25. Chorley Station; 22m 20ch
No wires. First mast now up over the Down/Northbound/Preston-bound platform; this is at the nothern end of the station, and features dangly bits.
26. Chorley (North End) - Buckshaw Pkwy (South End); 22m 20ch to 24m 39ch
Many bases, some masts, 1 or 2 wires. Roof brackets affixed in Chorley Tunnel (23m 20ch to 23m 25ch), and at least 6 dangly bits/SPS are up in the Flying Arches cutting. All bases on top of the retaining wall at the northern end now have portal booms affixed.
27. Buckshaw Parkway Station; 24m 39ch
Some bases in place, 2 TTCs up on the Down side, 1 TTC up on the Up side. The footbridge have now sprouted stovepipes. No wires.
28. Buckshaw Pkwy (North End) - Euxton Jct; 24m 39ch to 25m 31ch
Almost fully masted; about half the wires up until halfway to Euxton, then fully wired the rest of the way.
Do let me know if I've missed anything!
GSoP Post 9.0
Manchester Victoria - Preston; State of Play, week beginning 11th June 2018.
28 bases & 177 (at a guess/at most) masts still missing.
All mileages from Manchester Victoria. Bridge mileages are approximated where noted.
1. Man Vic Station (West End) - Man Vic West Jct - Deal Street Jct; 0m 0ch to 0m 32ch
Fully wired 2013-15.
2. Deal Street Jct - Salford Central (East End); 0m 32ch to 0m 59ch
Fully masted. Limit of electrification is currently at 0m 46ch; SPS is up along the unwired stretch.
3. Salford Central; 0m 59ch
Fully masted, most SPS (Small Part Steelwork e.g. dangly bits) up. No wires.
4. Salford Central (West End) - Windsor Bridge South Jct; 0m 59ch to 1m 46ch
All bases in place, mostly with masts, no catenary or earth wires. Two runs of Earth wire are up.
5. Windsor Bridge South Jct - Windsor Bridge North Jct (inc. Salford Crescent); 1m 46ch to 1m 70ch
No catenary/contact wires. All masts now up through P2, by evidence of the Earth wire being strung betwixt them. The bespoke "right triangle" fixings on one of the footbridges have turned out to be fixings for dangly bits. Each side has two stovepipes; one for a registration arm, one for an earth wire.
Both tracks to the east of Salford Crescent (the Up & Down Bolton thru P1, and the Up Bolton immediately to the east of that) are completely bedanglied through the station.
S Jct looks ready for wiring, but mast gaps still present at N Jct. Lots of SPS up immediately north of Salford Cres.; including on all stalactites beneath the bridge at the south end on all lines.
6. Windsor Bridge North Jct - Clifton (South End); 1m 70ch to 4m 57ch
Many bases in place, some with masts, no wires.
At Pendleton (the Old Station site), just north of Broughton Rd Bridge (2m 26ch), the Pendleton retaining wall has been cut back in several places to make room for bases (which are all now in).
Between Frederick Rd & Broughton Rd (2m 26ch) bridges, most masts are up, except on the "problem bases" around Broughton Rd. The 3 bases, between Broughton Rd Bridge & Cockrobin Bridge (approx. 2m 51ch) have all now been driven home.
The "problem base" north of Cockrobin Bridge may be a TTC (Twin Track Cantilever) on the s'bound side (see photo A020m).
Dangly bits up near Agecroft, but no work on missing bases in the walled stretch north of Agecroft Rd.
Steelwork north of Park House Rd Bridge looks complete.
Structure going up between Agecroft Rd bridge and Clifton, nr Lumns Lane.
Lot of masts with SPS up on the southern approach to Clifton.
7. Clifton Station; 4m 57ch
1 boomed TTC (with SPS), no wires. Base for another TTC in behind the southbound platform.
8. Clifton (North End) - Kearsley (South End); 4m 57ch to 7m 57ch
Most/all bases in place, large no. of masts, no wires.
Concrete slab base curing north of the former Dixon Fold station site (around the new footbridge, approx. 6m 00ch); most/all masts up there, with lots of stovepipes up.
Looking south from Kearsley, all masts that are up appear to be fully kitted out with SPS.
9. Kearsley Station; 7m 57ch
All bases in place, no masts, no wires.
10. Kearsley (North End) - Farnworth (South End); 7m 57ch to 8m 31ch
All masts (almost all with booms), no wires. Dangly bits starting to appear at the Kearsley end. Farnworth tunnel (8m 25ch) has all its registration arms in place.
11. Farnworth Station; 8m 31ch
All bases in place, 1 or 2 masts, no wires. Looks pretty much ready for wiring south of the Farnworth Station Footbridge.
12. Farnworth (North End) - Moses Gate (South End); 8m 31ch to 9m 06ch
A pair of bases & squat masts are up between Farnworth Station footbridge and Rawson St Bridge (approx. 8m 44ch). Two bases have now gone in in the southbound cess, awaiting masts; one each side of the "squat portal" uprights.
Fully boomed and fully bedanglied TTCs up between Rawson St & the Balustraded Bridge (approx. 8m 56ch); this stretch now looks wire-ready.[/COLOR]
The Gravity "Base of the century" just south of the Squeeze Belly Entry footbridge (approx. 8m 67ch) is now curing away nicely, with shuttering removed.
13. Moses Gate Station; 9m 06ch
Fully masted, no wires
14. Moses Gate (North End) - Bolton (South End); 9m 06ch to 10m 50ch
Weston St to Moses Gate looks almost ready for wiring.
Many bases, many masts, no wires. SPS and Tensorex drums appearing on some masts/cantilevers around Burnden Jct (10m 09ch).
All uprights appear to be up on both sides of Lever St footbridge; a multi-track portal is up immediately to the south of the bridge. To the north (on the east side), a TTC with reduced-height registration arms is up.
Orlando St Bridge appears to be fully "stovepiped".
15. Bolton Station; 10m 50ch
Through the station, all lines are fully masted with the exception of P1 (1 mast missing between Weston St & Newport St bridges) and P5 (1 mast missing between Weston St & Bradshawgate Tunnel), according to the observations of Reg.
The 1st TTC up over P1/2 has now been bedanglied; in total, P1/2 is covered by 4 TTCs and 3 STCs. P2 still requires its "termination mast".
Platforms 98% open to public; the 2% not open is a fenced-off section of canopy support to the right of signal "MP9239". P2 buffers look finished. Canopies look complete.
Earth wires now going in; the first one runs parallel to P3, from the southern end almost up to the road bridge at the northern end. A second one (parallel to P5) is up, and it extends south through Burnden as far as the eye can see.
Two sets of chalked "hieroglyphs" are etched into the bridge deck of Trinity St over P3/4; possible locations for stovepipes? Additionally, bolts & brackets are now drilled into the glazed brick retaining wall opposite P1.
16. Bolton (North End) - Lostock (South End); 10m 50ch to 13m 52ch
Newport St bridge has now had studs/brackets of some kind drilled in. The run of masts between Newport St & the NW end of P5 now have their earth wire affixed. Just east of Newport St Bridge, a TTC (unbedanglied) has now gone up on the southbound side.
Between Newport Street Bridge & Moor Lane (the Bullfield Tunnels area), the tunnels are bedanglied throughout, with Aerial Earth Wire (AEW) brackets up over both tracks' respective tunnels/bridges.
Immediately NW of Newport St, one of the concrete bases that was poured over the weekend of May 5th has now had a mast affixed; the other mast for the other base is lying in wait.
Gt. Moor St. bridge now has a stovepipe in on the Down side. The most recently cured base, fresh from unwrapping, has now had a mast & two dangly assemblies put up (see pic. A300k; between Great Moor St. & Dawes St. bridges). Of the "3 amigos" (the three closest masts to Great Moor St. Bridge), 2 now have Tensorex Drums fitted and the other has its dangly bits cabled-tied down(see pic. A320k).
Cable ducting troughs laid between Black Horse St & New St on the Down side, in the cess; 5 masts (with a 6th waiting to be erected) are now up in this gap.
The overrun along the line to Blackburn (as far as Bradshawgate Tunnel) looks nearly ready for SPS & wires.
East of Dean Clough Bridge (12m 26ch), 2 "failed" driven pile bases on the southbound side now have formwork for concrete gravity pad replacements in position, awaiting the concrete pour.
Between Dean Clough Bridge and 'the' Ladybridge (next one further west), all masts appear to be up, with cantilever assembles affixed (and folded out of place).
Thence, between 'the' Ladybridge and Beaumont Rd, all masts of all varieties are now up. Earth wires are already being strung!
All bases are in place between Beaumont Rd & Lostock station; only 5 of them are empty now.
Masts have started to appear immediately south of Lostock; at the extreme southern end of the station, a twin track portal with SPS has been erected, with the 4-track portal over Lostock Jct (13m 39ch) immediately south of that now being boomed too. 3 "failed" protruding, uncapped pile bases are on the Wigan Line; one assumes that gravity pad replacements will eventually be in the offing.
More masts around the switchgear box are sprouting dangly bits, switchgear kit etc.
A UTX has been installed in the "vee" in Lostock Jct, for buried service access.
Work currently going on with stacks of cable ducting on the Wigan Line - possibly from the substation?
Another TTC (with boom) has gone up on the Wigan Line.
17. Lostock Station; 13m 52ch
Switchgear box delivered 6th April '18.
Two bases in behind the Down line platform north of the station bridge; both bear TTCs (and both are currently sans boom).
18. Lostock (North End) - Horwich Pkwy (South End); 13m 52ch to 15m 50ch
Two more UTXs have been installed in the "vee" between the two lines, to the north of the station.
Immediately north of the station, the closest TTCs to the platforms have now sprouted part of their switchgear kit.
For a mile between the stations, all wires up from the "Golf Course" Footbridge (approx. 14m 04ch) to half a mile south of Horwich Pkwy (approx. 15m 10ch). Earth wires have gone up on the Down side immediately north of the station; these presumably extend to the existing wired section.
All masts appear to be in place with SPS for the remaining sections between the two, including the A6027/De Havilland Way overbridge, which now has dangly bits mounted on the walls.
19. Horwich Parkway Station; 15m 50ch
Two new TTCs up on the south end of the platforms; one portal and one TTC to go up. (Thanks again to @Joseph_Locke for that gen.) Bedanglied TTCs now up through the station, with more to erect.
20. Horwich Pkwy (North End) - Blackrod (South End); 15m 50ch to 17m 14ch
All masts appear to be up NW of Horwich Pkwy to the M61 bridge. Earth/AT wires linking 9 masts together between the 2 stations, heading north (on the Up side) from immediately north of the M61 bridge (approx. 16m 29ch).
More Earth/AT wires are now up immediately NW of the footbridge at the NW end of Horwich Parkway Car Park, on the Down side (N'bound); the footbridge in question has also been sandwiched by some very complex-looking steelwork (presumably for the reduced clearances).
SPS appearing on portals near Blackrod, and SPS assemblies have been folded out of the way on the station's southern approach.
Work has resumed on the footbridge that will replace Red Moss foot crossing; complex portal/masts are up there too.
21. Blackrod Station; 17m 14ch
Some more bases in place, no masts, no wires. Empty mast base at the southern end (not the northern end, as was writ in error).
22. Blackrod (North End) - Adlington (South End); 17m 14ch to 19m 15ch
Lots of masts up just north of Blackrod, with SPS all fitted. Some base replacement work occurred over 17th/18th Feb to replace failed bases. Successful bases have masts up with SPS on.
23. Adlington Station; 19m 15ch
Most bases in place, 2 masts up (one on each side), no wires.
24. Adlington (North End) - Chorley (South End); 19m 15ch to 22m 20ch
2 short stretches of wire on the s'bound track.
Bespoke mast fixings going up on Yarrow Viaduct (21m 26ch at the southern end); 3 of the 4 are in place. The southern pair are now in; work on the northern pair has stopped after the alleged discovery of large void within the structure.
25. Chorley Station; 22m 20ch
No wires. First mast now up over the Down/Northbound/Preston-bound platform; this is at the nothern end of the station, and features dangly bits.
26. Chorley (North End) - Buckshaw Pkwy (South End); 22m 20ch to 24m 39ch
Many bases, some masts, 1 or 2 wires. Roof brackets affixed in Chorley Tunnel (23m 20ch to 23m 25ch), and at least 6 dangly bits/SPS are up in the Flying Arches cutting. All bases on top of the retaining wall at the northern end now have portal booms affixed.
27. Buckshaw Parkway Station; 24m 39ch
Some bases in place, 2 TTCs up on the Down side, 1 TTC up on the Up side. The footbridge have now sprouted stovepipes. No wires.
28. Buckshaw Pkwy (North End) - Euxton Jct; 24m 39ch to 25m 31ch
Almost fully masted; about half the wires up until halfway to Euxton, then fully wired the rest of the way.
Do let me know if I've missed anything!
Hi LDECRexile - Yes of course please feel free to use these photo's, and any subsequent ones, as you wish. I often walk along this section of track so I should be able to upload more photo's as the project advances.
LDECRexile
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Thank you Baz, I've created an album for you here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157697878194035
and added your shots to the Combined Volume here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
Welcome aboard and please keep 'em coming!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157697878194035
and added your shots to the Combined Volume here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
Welcome aboard and please keep 'em coming!
swt_passenger
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I thought devices like that were normally seen the other way up, and the “comb teeth” were to catch a falling cable, hence maintaining it roughly in its correct relative position to prevent it coming into accidental contact with other cables...
Hmm, perhaps it is rotated down to allow snagless installation, before fixing it into its final position.
LDECRexile
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Wrinkley has followed Baz123's shots of installing the first wire in the Lostock-Ladybridge-Dean Clough area with a fine photographic study of the whole length as installed and tensioned.
I've added it 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.
I've added it 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.
twpsaesneg
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It's an Earth Bar (or TV aerial as they were dubbed on WCRM).
The idea is that if the ATF wire parts, it falls onto it and drops the breakers before it hits the S&T cabinet in-span. In west coast days it was due to doubts (correctly so it turns out) as to the earthing integrity of the S&T equipment. They *should* only be needed on spans where location cases are in the fall zone of the ATF.
With a S&T setup that can be proved to be properly bonded they shouldn't be needed.
The "spikes" are supposed to stop birds roosting and causing nuisance trippings, and there's also a school of thought that says they can "catch" the wire as well, which is why a crosby clip is allocated to be fitted on the ATF wire, to snag on the spikes.
In reality, having seen what happens when a wire break happens, I suspect the wire will actually go along-track rather more rapidly than it falls, and completely miss the earth bar.
The one in the photo is the wrong way up, probably to aid installing the AF wire on the insulators without getting spiked in the process.
LDECRexile
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As I was becoming stir crazy I got up early and explored Kearsley to Pendleton, sure to be back in good time.
Mostly good or very good news, but I'll start with the disappointment:
The new footbridge just north of the M60 bridge over "our" line appears to have become becalmed. The bridge itself looks fine and dandy and should not pose any problems for wiring, but the last target date I was told for job to be done was late April and now we're well into June. The footpaths to the bridge have not been laid and plant is still on site to work on the diverted footpaths west of the bridge. The site itself has standard portacabins where the "office" one was open with a monitor screen on, but not a soul in sight for the 15 minutes or so that I was nearby. Puzzling.
All else was good or very good:
Kearsley's northbound platform has ben repaired and intending passengers were waiting on both. Looking north and south from the station all steelwork looked wire-ready. That is an impression, of course, but a good one. The exception was on the station itself where two large yellow covers cover what I would bet your pensions are bases for a portal.
Next was Dixon Fold, aiming to see the footbridge reported above. As far as the eye could see in both directions from Dixon Fold bridge to the M60 bridge steelwork looked wire-ready. Heartening.
Then on to Cock Robin Bridge and yippee!, all the bases just north of the bridge and south of the bridge towards Pendleton (Old) station site which have caused so much consternation over past months now have masts standing proud. Not dangloid yet, but hey, masts and several booms too. Great.
Then back to Agecroft. The Tarmac headshunt is nicely shiny, courtesy of the Settle and Carlisle. The steelwork in both directions looks almost wire-ready, just the odd missing dangly and a missing "guy rope" from a mast to a pile nearby. Yo!
Then last of all, walk along the canal to look at the difficult, walled stretch immediately north of Agecroft Road bridge - Lo and Behold! it hasn't merely sprouted bases, but masts too! Zero to hero! I stopped while I was winning.
Photos this evening.
Mostly good or very good news, but I'll start with the disappointment:
The new footbridge just north of the M60 bridge over "our" line appears to have become becalmed. The bridge itself looks fine and dandy and should not pose any problems for wiring, but the last target date I was told for job to be done was late April and now we're well into June. The footpaths to the bridge have not been laid and plant is still on site to work on the diverted footpaths west of the bridge. The site itself has standard portacabins where the "office" one was open with a monitor screen on, but not a soul in sight for the 15 minutes or so that I was nearby. Puzzling.
All else was good or very good:
Kearsley's northbound platform has ben repaired and intending passengers were waiting on both. Looking north and south from the station all steelwork looked wire-ready. That is an impression, of course, but a good one. The exception was on the station itself where two large yellow covers cover what I would bet your pensions are bases for a portal.
Next was Dixon Fold, aiming to see the footbridge reported above. As far as the eye could see in both directions from Dixon Fold bridge to the M60 bridge steelwork looked wire-ready. Heartening.
Then on to Cock Robin Bridge and yippee!, all the bases just north of the bridge and south of the bridge towards Pendleton (Old) station site which have caused so much consternation over past months now have masts standing proud. Not dangloid yet, but hey, masts and several booms too. Great.
Then back to Agecroft. The Tarmac headshunt is nicely shiny, courtesy of the Settle and Carlisle. The steelwork in both directions looks almost wire-ready, just the odd missing dangly and a missing "guy rope" from a mast to a pile nearby. Yo!
Then last of all, walk along the canal to look at the difficult, walled stretch immediately north of Agecroft Road bridge - Lo and Behold! it hasn't merely sprouted bases, but masts too! Zero to hero! I stopped while I was winning.
Photos this evening.
chrissawer
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No more wire than in the photos, it's obviously been there a bit longer than I thought.
There are now lots of dangly bits on the masts on all three tracks through Salford Crescent so hopefully we will see more wires before long.
LDECRexile
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1. Did you notice whether the huge concrete base opposite Platform 1, roughly half way along the platform, has had a mast plonked on it yet?
2. Are you able to take photos when you are there?
Joseph_Locke
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LDECRexile
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I've added my shots from this morning to the Combined Volume here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
LDECRexile
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LDECRexile
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I've just spent ten minutes looking at yesterday's (12 June) realtimetrains, advanced search, NT only, for Kirkham and Wesham, Salford Crescent and Bolton. (Then Man Vic, Man Picc, Lime St and Liverpool S Parkway for good measure.)
I only sampled lateness and only saw one over 30 mins or more, but what I saw very few of was cancellations, then in no instance was it declared to be driver-related (one brakes problem, one late inbound a couple of not investigated.)
The patient appears to have been stabilised, is that so?
Does anyone know if drivers are being trained at a rate of knots?
Man Air to Blackpool North seems to be stable (it wasn't on Sunday) but Lime St to Blackpool North is yet to be (re)introduced.
Dire daily lateness and cancellation figures were published when the fertiliser hit the fan. Are those figures publicly accessible anywhere? If so, can someone please post a link?
I only sampled lateness and only saw one over 30 mins or more, but what I saw very few of was cancellations, then in no instance was it declared to be driver-related (one brakes problem, one late inbound a couple of not investigated.)
The patient appears to have been stabilised, is that so?
Does anyone know if drivers are being trained at a rate of knots?
Man Air to Blackpool North seems to be stable (it wasn't on Sunday) but Lime St to Blackpool North is yet to be (re)introduced.
Dire daily lateness and cancellation figures were published when the fertiliser hit the fan. Are those figures publicly accessible anywhere? If so, can someone please post a link?
Greybeard33
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I noticed today that an earth wire is up on the Wigan branch, extending west from Lostock Jn to terminate on a portal structure a few masts further on.
The earth wire through Salford Crescent Platform 2 continues down the Atherton line to the limit of electrification.
There are still two National Grid transmission line oversails east of Clifton and three more between Clifton and Kearsley. Does anyone know if these need to be buried? They look quite low.
The earth wire through Salford Crescent Platform 2 continues down the Atherton line to the limit of electrification.
There are still two National Grid transmission line oversails east of Clifton and three more between Clifton and Kearsley. Does anyone know if these need to be buried? They look quite low.
Greybeard33
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See http://trains.im/ppm for live and historic PPM statistics, broken down by operator and route.
LDECRexile
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Very helpful, warm thanks.
superkev
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Very interesting thanks.
Northerns problems seem to be over for a while at least now drivers are working overtime again.
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GRALISTAIR
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As usual sir - mighty fine set of pictorial progress. Sent from my iPad from the Caribbean port of Barbados while drunk on rum punch
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Salwick station has acquired a nice new shiny box. On it, it says "Common Bonding Conductor" and "Traction Bond Termination Point". Can anyone explain in lay terms what it does?
I didn't know any platform(s) were being realigned at Salford Crescent but the Twitter feed today has these pictures of the work (OLE structures visible too):
https://twitter.com/TheGNRP/status/1006897275354820610
https://twitter.com/TheGNRP/status/1006897275354820610
LNW-GW Joint
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That's a very short time (a few weeks) between the bases going in, the masts going up, and wires appearing.
In some other areas it's taken the best part of 3 years!
LDECRexile
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Everyone who has followed this thread, the Liverpool-Manchester Electrification thread and the recently opened Electrical Engineering - General thread, among others, will have relished the witty and deeply knowledgeable contributions from Joseph Locke.
He's now branched out into photography, with a shot of the new and final base at Salford Crescent.
I've created an album for him and added his shot here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157696299950851
and added it to the Combined Volume here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
Thank you Mr L.
He's now branched out into photography, with a shot of the new and final base at Salford Crescent.
I've created an album for him and added his shot here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157696299950851
and added it to the Combined Volume here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127646831@N03/albums/72157661069863633
Thank you Mr L.
LDECRexile
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Does anyone know how Northern's driver training programme is going?
Does anyone know how Northern intend to restore full services, eg Big Bang or in phases? Does anyone know when this/these are aimed to take place?
Specifically, does anyone know when it is hoped to restore York-Blackpool North and Lime St-Blackpool North?
Does anyone know how Northern intend to restore full services, eg Big Bang or in phases? Does anyone know when this/these are aimed to take place?
Specifically, does anyone know when it is hoped to restore York-Blackpool North and Lime St-Blackpool North?
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