It is a steel framed structure with a bit of cladding - keeps the weight and the costs down. it is essentially a large waiting shelter. Anyway I wont be able to see the outside of it while waiting for a train and it hardly damages the fine dreaming spires skyline of Beltcho!
yes - but it was never going to be anything esle
agreed - it isn't finished yet.
I hope that, once it is completed, it looks a bit better. The "artist's impression" in Modern Railways here looks almost Art Deco. Or is that the triumph of hope over experience...?
yeah - it aint gonna look like that! There doesn't seem to be any framing in place for a glass front in the pictures above. They show the same side of the station as per the renders in Modern Railways.
I dont need a drone to tell me what the sidings are like.
The photos on twitter linked to upthread appear to be somewhere between the Bletchley Road/Newton Road and Selbourne Avenue bridges.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing.
The current works do not include bridge rebuilding where the need for it arises only from the possibility of future electrification. (I think that would count as active provision, not passive.)
As @snowball mentioned there’s no general provision for wiring. The over rail bridges that are already clear for double track at line speed and gauge aren’t being replaced. But although Furze Lane bridge OXD20, west of the station site will definitely not allow wires, I think the Buckingham Road bridge OXD18 may be clear for wiring “as is”, the current state shown in the planning drawings shows 6.9m height above the outer rail of the single track which was on the up side. As they are also extending the existing parapets here to the height required for wires, that may be another indication it’s already clear. I’ll attach a part of the intended as built drawing, it’s at 1:100 scale.
Interesting that this is an existing bridge where they have chosen to use two separate arches for the up and down lines. Does anyone know if that’s how it was used before?
I think the black sheeting is probably a geotextile, designed to allow water to pass through it, but prevent fines from the subgrade material doing so. It helps keeps the ballast clean, by preventing mixing of the bottom of the ballast with the top of the subgrade.
According to the 1952 OS map, there were three tracks under the bridge, one being a siding to the North of the mainline, which opened out into a number of parallel sidings where the B5 compound is now.
This picture gives an arial view ( 2 weeks ago), I did not appreciate the road under bridge , I see work has not started on the 2nd rail under bridge , to the IMD.
There has been some prior discussion about the function, location and name of these sidings in this thread. I don't want to paraphrase lest I get it wrong.
Indeed there was (post #450). I really must pay closer attention!There has been some prior discussion about the function, location and name of these sidings in this thread. I don't want to paraphrase lest I get it wrong.
