East Coast Mainline Blockade for Werrington Junction diveunder

[Joseph_Pestell]

10 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

Of course we could all be confused with Clapham. Clapham Junction is AFAIK in the area of London known as Clapham.  Clapham station, which was a junction station as well, is well over a mile from the village of Clapham and is actually nearer to Keasden.

 

Jamie

No, Clapham Jct (London) follows the usual Southern rule of being the junction for Clapham. It is located in Battersea. Of course, over the years, most people have come to think of it as being in Clapham.

[Donington Road]

[Mike Storey]

On 20/04/2020 at 17:03, The Stationmaster said:

But someone has reused an old name at Reading which is somewhat confusing to those of us of more mature (albeit retired) years as Reading High Level has moved from the east end of Reading station to west of the station and from the north side of the running lines to the south side.  But strangely although High Level has been re-used there is not a new Low level - which seems a bit churlish because High Level made a lot of sense when it related, pretty closely, to Low Level.

 

 

But where exactly was General? Which General??

[Crun]

On ‎21‎/‎04‎/‎2020 at 20:49, Mike Storey said:

 

But where exactly was General? Which General??

 

You might need the which finder general...  

[Crun]

Saturday 25th April view of progress with sheet piling:

Edited April 25, 2020 by Crun

[Crun]

View of work around the water pumping operation:

Edited April 25, 2020 by Crun

[Crun]

Sheet piling work south of Cock Lane bridge:

[Crun]

Wide angle view north of Cock Lane bridge:

[Crun]

Close up of machines north of Cock Lane bridge:

[Donington Road]

Thank you for the latest update Chris.

Looks as though someone found the lazer level this week and got all the sheeting piling heights neatly inline.

[Crun]

On 21/04/2020 at 18:43, Donington Road said:

Just heard a noise and realised it was the sheet piling work after being woken at 04.45. It's carrying a fair distance in the midst of the dawn chorus.

Edited April 26, 2020 by Crun
Re-writing post.

[rodent279]

On 20/04/2020 at 12:10, melmerby said:

Railways have never been known for strictly accurate place names.

Dent Station is 4 miles from Dent.

The GWR was fond of using xxxx Road for station names, being on the road to xxxx.

 

Even something like Birmingham New Street station is not in New St. and never has been.

Maybe it should have been named the more appropriate Stephenson Street as that was the access road that was built for it?

 

Presumably, North Pole Junction was not so named because it lead to the North Pole?

On the subject of junction names madness, who was Dr Day, and why does he (or she) deserve the honour of having a railway junction named after them?

[rodent279]

On 11/04/2020 at 16:02, The Stationmaster said:

As a technical aside you need an absolute minimum of two signals (*) for wrong direction signalling in a simbids section unless it is a sufficiently short section to enable the yellow aspect to be given by the signal at the entrance to the section.  In a fully signalled bi-directional section the 'wrong' direction signals should properly exactly mimic the normal running direction signals.   However most UK 'open country' bi-directional lines tend nowadays not to have that facility - unlike, for example, bi-directional signalling on SNCB.

 

Note - * One signal at the exit from the section capable of showing a red aspect (plus the necessary proceed aspect(s) and indication of route) plus a repeater signal in rear of it capable of showing at least a single yellow aspect.

This is a fascinating subject- @Moderators, does it deserve a topic in it's own right?

 

If a stretch of line is fully reversibly signalled, are signals repeated in both directions at the same location? And if so, how does the driver know which to obey, if two are placed side by side, or near to each other?

Also, if a stretch of line, other than in a station or the approaches to, is fully reversibly signalled, is there still an "Up" and a "Down" line?

Cheers N

[melmerby]

Bit of reversible working at the start of this:

 

[Donington Road]

8 hours ago, Crun said:

Just heard a noise and realised it was the sheet piling work after being woken at 04.45. It's carrying a fair distance in the midst of the dawn chorus.

 

Yes, it woke me up about 6:30 this morning.  They must have hit some hard ground as they hammering the sheet piles instead of the usual vibrating.

[JeffP]

Seems to be a lot of reversible working on that film after Gatwick.

[Richard E]

Oops!

 

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/peterborough-residents-angered-after-being-woken-4am-rail-works-2550893

[Donington Road]

Photographs taken earlier today by a good friend of mine with kind permission to post here.

All taken from Cock Lane showing the progress of work being done in the wide-way.

 

 

 

A substantial earth mound has been built up in the left background from the piling process virtually obliterating the view of the white farm house on Hurn Road.

The white porta cabins have been removed from the wide-way on the right hand side which previously made photography of trains challenging.

It is also noticeable how the lineside shrubbery has greened up in the past few weeks hiding the Royal Mail building.

 

 

 

Sheet piling around Werrington Brook

 

Work creeping further south towards Walton

 

 

The new inlet.  I think this is for the overflow of Marholm Brook into Werrington Brook.

 

 

Water still being pumped from the Marholm Brook in to the new drain.

Edited May 1, 2020 by Donington Road

[melmerby]

Slightly off topic.

Is the speed signalling introduce between Werrington & Stoke still in operation?

I was watching a video of a train with a Class 91 in charge and the signals were flashing greens, denoting  clear for140mph, but the train was of course limited to 125mph.

[St. Simon]

32 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Slightly off topic.

Is the speed signalling introduce between Werrington & Stoke still in operation?

I was watching a video of a train with a Class 91 in charge and the signals were flashing greens, denoting  clear for140mph, but the train was of course limited to 125mph.

Yes, there are still Flashing Greens in use, I’ve heard that it is just too complex to remove from the interlocking.

 

It doesn’t mean anything different to a steady green for any train now though, they are in the rule book, but I can’t remember what it says about them!

 

Simon

[ess1uk]

They will go when ERTMS comes along soon 

12 hours ago, melmerby said:

Slightly off topic.

Is the speed signalling introduce between Werrington & Stoke still in operation?

I was watching a video of a train with a Class 91 in charge and the signals were flashing greens, denoting  clear for140mph, but the train was of course limited to 125mph.

 

[Crun]

02/05/2020 - Some photographs of the Werrington end of the dive under:

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by Crun

[Crun]

02/05/2020 Photographs from the Cock Lane bridge area:

Edited May 2, 2020 by Crun

[Donington Road]

1 hour ago, Crun said:

Some photographs of the Werrington end of the dive under:

 

Thank you Chris, nice to see some images of what is going on in the Hurn Road/Lincoln Road area which we haven't seen for a while.

[Donington Road]

Some more photos taken today from Cock Lane by my good friend.

First we have a new OHEL gantry spanning the area near to Werrington Brook.  The bases for this were done last August leading to speculation as to what they were for, now we know.

That was really forward planning.  I guess the single stanchion in the forground needs to be removed so further work can be done on the Brook which is just to the left of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice the very low water level in the new drain.

The large spoil heap in the background beyond the pylon continues to grow in size.

 

 

 

.........and here's the reason why.

digging out has started between the sheet piling in the wide-way creating the down ramp towards the dive under.

 

 

 

 

 

Clean your hands?

..........where, in the new drain