East Coast Mainline Blockade for Werrington Junction diveunder

Richard E · June 17, 2020

Nice video Mick, very informative I think.

Richard E · June 17, 2020

Had a little wander this morning.

Firstly I must say it was good to see Mick again, we 'bumped' into each other at Lincoln Road.

I started at Cock Lane. The first thing I noticed was the headspan just south of the bridge has gone and the gantry has been wired.

Then the reason for numbering next to the cuts of the piling that could be seen on Micks video became apparent, they are welding the sheets back together! Having gas cut the piles they are now arc welding them when rejoining.

I then went across to Lincoln Road where the piles which will form the new bridge abutments are being exposed. For some reason those at rail end this side have been cut back whilst they haven't on the far side.

And finally they are still filling in under the A15 so that they have access with machinery. This will, finally, need to be dug out when the time to get some track in place arrives.

Donington Road · June 17, 2020

Good to see you today Richard :good:

At least those cut off ends you recorded are being put to good use :rolleyes:

Just a few more photos to supplement those that you posted today.

Using the tooth pick to clear away filling around the piles at Lincoln Road.

The north side piles of the new Lincoln Road bridge.

The Hurn Road retaining wall from the opposite side.

Lots of new materials hidden behind the trees have been delivered to the Hurn Road end of the site.

Many pallets of what look like wooden fencing posts (dark colour), steel box section and enough sheets of plywood to build us all shed or two many times over.

Then there are these girders which are probably for going across the top of the ramp as it emeges from the dive-under.

Donington Road · June 19, 2020

The hammer has come out to play and a few more going ons around Cock Lane.

Richard E · June 20, 2020

11 hours ago, Donington Road said:

The hammer has come out to play and a few more going ons around Cock Lane.

You can see, at about 1:00 and again at 1:15, that there is some minor damage to the underside of the footbridge already.

Also at about 7:15 when the girders are delivered the wagon is running with the tractor tag axle down, running heavy and needing the extra traction that it provides.

The 225 at 9:00 was quite widely flagged on social media, it had run all the way from Edinburgh and was limited to 110mph maximum according to the LNER Twitter feed. Some others had said 100mph.

The concrete going in on Werrington Brook is substantial as I understand that is where the up Stamford line will run when the project is completed.

Crun · June 20, 2020

Concrete piles now more exposed:

Edited June 20, 2020 by Crun

Donington Road · June 20, 2020

4 hours ago, Richard E said:

The concrete going in on Werrington Brook is substantial as I understand that is where the up Stamford line will run when the project is completed.

The one area I cannot understand at the moment is the large concrete pipes going in near Marholm Brook.

As Marholm Brook is 'clean water' which will feed into Werrington Brook, where is this new feed coming from that could be classed as clean water?

I have seen the drainage plans awhile ago but don't recall having seen this work on them.

Crun · June 20, 2020

A15 bridge:

Edited June 20, 2020 by Crun

Crun · June 20, 2020

Recent aerial photographs:

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Add extra photographs

Donington Road · June 20, 2020

4 hours ago, Crun said:

Recent aerial photographs:

Thank you for those excellent photos.

Do to the limitations of RMweb those three aerial photographs that Crun so kindly posted cannot be enlarged to reveal more detail.

The original files can be downloaded from nrairops.

Once saved they can then be enlarged.

INSTRUCTIONS TO DOWNLOAD AND SAVE THE ORIGINAL FILES (when using FireFox)

left click on the image below

in the Twitter account that pops up left click on the image again

when the large view of the image appears right click and choose save image as

Edited June 20, 2020 by Donington Road

melmerby · June 20, 2020

2 hours ago, Donington Road said:

Do to the limitations of RMweb those three aerial photographs that Crun so kindly posted cannot be enlarged to reveal more detail.

Depends what you are viewing on!

When I click on the image in RMWeb, it scales to 1365px x 910px (size is 16.5" x 10.5") from an original posted size of 1500px x 1000px which shows a fair bit of detail.

However the facebook image is less detailed when saved.

EDIT

I have now managed to extract the jpg image from the HTML page (not straightforward) , so it is at original resolution of 4096px x 2523px

Edited June 20, 2020 by melmerby

Donington Road · June 20, 2020

45 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Depends what you are viewing on!

When I click on the image in RMWeb, it scales to 1365px x 910px (size is 16.5" x 10.5") from an original posted size of 1500px x 1000px which shows a fair bit of detail.

However the facebook image is less detailed when saved.

EDIT

I have now managed to extract the jpg image from the HTML page (not straightforward) , so it is at original resolution of 4096px x 2523px

I have amended the original post with instructions of how to download the original images from Twitter.

melmerby · June 21, 2020

10 hours ago, Donington Road said:

I have amended the original post with instructions of how to download the original images from Twitter.

The problem I had that it was saving the jpg as an html file, which obviously when you tried to open it, it wouldn't.

So I had to save it extracted from the "original image info" and appended as a .jpg and as "all files"

EDIT

I'm not quite sure what was going on as it seems OK now.

Edited June 21, 2020 by melmerby

ess1uk · June 21, 2020

17 hours ago, Crun said:

Recent aerial photographs:

Excellent

i was wondering where the new Siemens REB was.

the big yellow crane (top photo) was used to place it on its base as the delivery lorry could not get close enough

Donington Road · June 21, 2020

1 hour ago, ess1uk said:

Excellent

i was wondering where the new Siemens REB was.

the big yellow crane (top photo) was used to place it on its base as the delivery lorry could not get close enough

I presume that is the white box between the crane and relay building.

Is it to replace the existing relay building?

melmerby · June 21, 2020

For those of us who aren't au fait with railway terminology what is an REB?

Donington Road · June 21, 2020

17 minutes ago, melmerby said:

For those of us who aren't au fait with railway terminology what is an REB?

Relocatable Equipment Building for signalling

Edited June 21, 2020 by Donington Road

iands · June 21, 2020

44 minutes ago, Donington Road said:

Relocatable Equipment Building for signalling

...... and Telecoms.

melmerby · June 21, 2020

1 hour ago, Donington Road said:

Relocatable Equipment Building for signalling

A lineside shed then? :rolleyes:

phil-b259 · June 21, 2020

1 hour ago, Donington Road said:

Relocatable Equipment Building for signalling

Sometimes known as 'Portacabin' in the wider world though as with 'Hover' the word Portacabin is a trademark of one specific company so the generic 'REB' is used in official documentation.

Usually refereed to as a 'Superloc' (Super Location Case) by us S&T - as a building full of hardwired signalling kit is hardly going to be 'relocated' that much.

Richard E · June 21, 2020

Went over to daughters for Fathers Day so popped in to look at the site as it is on the way. Absolutely dead, no one working. All pictures are from Cock Lane.

Apparently the portal visible on the middle right was erected last night according to a post on Facebook. That post has some detailed pictures from within the possession on it.

It looks as if they've dug down next to the piles under the footbridge here.

They've tidied up along here.

The next two are from the footpath from Stirling Way to the footbridge.

Not sure what this hole is about but it had, from what I could see, a pretty sizeable pipe in it.

Donington Road · June 21, 2020

47 minutes ago, Richard E said:

Went over to daughters for Fathers Day so popped in to look at the site as it is on the way. Absolutely dead, no one working. All pictures are from Cock Lane.

Apparently the portal visible on the middle right was erected last night according to a post on Facebook. That post has some detailed pictures from within the possession on it.

It looks as if they've dug down next to the piles under the footbridge here.

Not sure what this hole is about but it had, from what I could see, a pretty sizeable pipe in it.

I think most of the work has stopped at weekends partly due to the social distancing and the put back from September to February next year of the TBM work.

The recent letters I have received regarding the planned nighttime working has not happened at all.

It is about time that portal was put up, it had been laying in the grass next to the junction since the beginning of December last year. It probably should have been erected last Christmas when they had the possesion to do all the re-stringing of the OHE.

Under the bridge they dug a fairly deep trench to accomodate the first and longest sheet piles before vibrating them in.

I'm also a bit mystified as to where this water is coming from for that large pipe and eventual outfall into Marholm Brook.

In my last video, 16min in, it shows the pipe being lowered into the hole.