Donington Road Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) Work started today on the west side piling underneath Cock Lane footbridge. Marholm Brook is getting a clean up. Concete still being pumped into that large hole in the wide-way and plenty of personnel working in that area. Edited June 29, 2020 by Donington Road 4 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 My roving reporter friend has been out today and captured more progress. There seems to be a lot going on at the moment. Installation of rebar and formwork has started to progress on both sides the cylindrical concrete piling towards the dive-under. More hardcore is being dug out from the deep hole and being dumped next to Werrington Brook. Marholm Brook gets a nice clean layer of gravel around the outfall from who knows where. Sheet piling continues under Cock Lane footbridge. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted July 1, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2020 It is really several years too late to ask, but why a dive under rather than a flyover? I would have thought the latter would have been much easier and less disruptive to build. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 27 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said: It is really several years too late to ask, but why a dive under rather than a flyover? I would have thought the latter would have been much easier and less disruptive to build. Jonathan Here's some bedtime reading nr07 - consultation report.pdf 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2020 Saturdays are quiet but give an opportunity to see things that might otherwise be missed. Although I didn't take a picture Marholm Brook now has water in it and all the pipework for the pumps looked as if it was being dismantled. Cock Lane footbridge saw work still going on for the piling with welding sheet piles back together on the western side. It is just possible to see reflections from the arc welder on the black sheets on the barriers. A bit of passing traffic too. Unfortunately I didn't have time to video it as that would have been quite good I think. And they still haven't quite finished around the brook. There is some tidying up going on next to the Thomas Cook Business Park. They were unloading the concrete traffic barriers from the trailer. And there seems to be quite a bit of spoil being 'stored' in the wideway. Over to Lincoln Road and the wing walls of the existing bridge are beginning to disappear. Not only is there the unit on the bridge to check for movement but there is another one in the undergrowth just to the right of where I am standing for this picture to monitor the cutting side. The new piles are still being cut back to reveal the rebar ready for further bar to be attached and the new buttress elements to be cast. And a new bit of excavation of earlier infill has started. Under the A15 is now ready for the next stage of work to start by the look of it. 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) 05/07/2020: Water in Marholm Brook: Excavations for the dive-under: Sheet piling under Cock Lane bridge: Edited July 5, 2020 by Crun 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted July 5, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2020 Something that seems a little strange is that the temporary access across the GN line has some infill to make a sort of level crossing but that across the Stamford lines doesn't. I wonder why the difference? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted July 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2020 18 hours ago, melmerby said: Something that seems a little strange is that the temporary access across the GN line has some infill to make a sort of level crossing but that across the Stamford lines doesn't. I wonder why the difference? It used to but that was removed when access to the dive under area was opened up further to the north where the permanent access will remain. There is, or has been, temporary access on the level at that point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 (edited) Activity on the ECML around Werrington Junction on the 5th July: Edited July 6, 2020 by Crun 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 05/07/2020 at 15:23, Crun said: 05/07/2020 Excavations for the dive-under: By your photo above all the spoil that was dug out on Friday and Saturday disappeared overnight on Saturday. 3:30pm Friday 3rd. 3:30pm Saturday 4th. 10:00am Monday 6th. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 (edited) All photos from my roving reporter friend. Friday 3rd. Some work going on to the west of the Stamford lines looking towards Walton. Work continues apace with more digging out of the ramp and concrete retaining walls being cast. Saturday 4th. Some different views for a change, taken from Walton footbridge looking towards Cock Lane. Monday 6th. Procession of lorries delivering concrete to be pumped across the Stamford lines Edited July 6, 2020 by Donington Road 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) Some work being done along the Joint Line today. New cabinet and trunking just north of Foxcovert Road. South of Foxcovert Road looking towards the Lincoln Road bridges in the distance. A lot of exposed cable to the left of the Up Joint. The point where the workmen are crossing will be the new Glinton Junction. Glinton Junction. Access road with turning circle coming from Lincoln Road in the foreground and a slight dip in ground level where the junction will start. Extremity of the acquired land at Glinton Junction. Werrington to the left and Foxcovert Road to the right The undergrowth had been cleared and this fence panel had been removed recently to construct the new base for more cabinets. Unfortunately, it is till impossible to see up and down the track from this point. Further along nearer Lincoln Road is this access crossing to nowhere Excavating the ramp towards Lincoln Road. The green Portakabins at Glinton Junction can just be seen above the spoil heap on the left. An excavator with a longer boom would have saved the use of the dumper Just to the right of the signal is the clearing in the undergrowth where the fence panel had been removed to create the base for a cabinet. The cabinet in front of the white truck awaits its placement once a road/rail crane can be brought in. Edited July 7, 2020 by Donington Road 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Meanwhile at Lincoln Road the laborious task of exposing the piles goes on. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) I think they are finding the problems with these uphill areas adjacent to high water table fenland; that the water seeps through the slightly higher ground and escapes onto the fens wherever it can. Edited July 7, 2020 by jonny777 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) 11 minutes ago, jonny777 said: I think they are finding the problems with these uphill areas adjacent to high water table fenland; that the water seeps through the slightly ground and escapes onto the fens wherever it can. I didn't photograph it for some reason, but just to the north of Lincoln Road footbridge before the temprorary access crossing is a slightly deeper excavation, perhaps three feet deep that is full of water and being pumped out. I would think it is hardly lower than the existing Joint Line. The whole area around here has always been very wet, The farmers were only too glad to sell their unproductive land to the unsuspecting railway engineers. Edited July 7, 2020 by Donington Road 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted July 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2020 2nd photo in 1st set of photos (Glinton Junction) - the vegetation could do with cutting back, can only just make out the signal. Of course, it may look different from track/cab level. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) A few odds and ends from today. The newts are enjoing their new home so I have been told. Stacks of these at Glinton Junction. To do with the cabling? The 'only' gap in the undergrowth for nearly a mile along the Joint Line. Glinton Junction. Hurn Road has never had a better road and it has all got to be dug out again. Concrete waste from the Lincoln Road pilings. This is just north of Lincoln Road. A lot of unburied new cabling running along side the Up Joint. Edited July 7, 2020 by Donington Road 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, iands said: 2nd photo in 1st set of photos (Glinton Junction) - the vegetation could do with cutting back, can only just make out the signal. Of course, it may look different from track/cab level. I agree, I doubt it is much different at track level. From the lower parts of the footbridge it cannot be seen at all. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted July 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Donington Road said: I didn't photograph it for some reason, but just to the north of Lincoln Road footbridge before the temprorary access crossing is a slightly deeper excavation, perhaps three feet deep that is full of water and being pumped out. I would think it is hardly lower than the existing Joint Line. The whole area around here has always been very wet, The farmers were only too glad to sell their unproductive land to the unsuspecting railway engineers. I did and I think it is in my last post but, for ease of looking, here it is. I suspect from what you say it is a bit deeper today than when I took the picture. Whether that is the hole or the water I don't know but I suspect a bit of both. Edited July 7, 2020 by Richard E 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Richard E said: I did and I think it is in my last post but, for ease of looking, here it is. I suspect from what you say it is a bit deeper today than when I took the picture. Whether that is the hole or the water I don't know but I suspect a bit of both. That's it Richard. It is a bit 'L' shaped, goes off about the same size to the right in the bottom right hand corner of the your photo. There is a pump and outlet pipe in there as well. It is no deeper today. I would even say it has had no more excavation done on it since you took the photo. Edited July 7, 2020 by Donington Road Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted July 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 7, 2020 11 minutes ago, Donington Road said: That's it Richard. It is a bit 'L' shaped, goes off about the same size to the right in the bottom right hand corner of the your photo. There is a pump and outlet pipe in there as well. It is no deeper today. I would even say it has had no more excavation done on it since you took the photo. Yes, I struggled to get a decent shot and left that bit out, it was taken from the temporary footbridge on Saturday. Looking at the area Foxcovert footbridge looks to be a bit of a walk from Lincoln Road, probably not so bad if you're on a bike though. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 4 hours ago, Donington Road said: A few odds and ends from today. The newts are enjoing their new home so I have been told. Stacks of these at Glinton Junction. To do with the cabling? The 'only' gap in the undergrowth for nearly a mile along the Joint Line. Glinton Junction. Hurn Road has never had a better road and it has all got to be dug out again. Concrete waste from the Lincoln Road pilings. This is just north of Lincoln Road. A lot of unburied new cabling running along side the Up Joint. Plenty of dragonflies and damselflies around the Great Crested Newt ponds when warm enough for them to take flight. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, Crun said: Plenty of dragonflies and damselflies around the Great Crested Newt ponds when warm enough for them to take flight. Yes it is a nice area. I had a walk up to the ponds this morning, but it is the things that lurk in the long grass I'm wary of. Credit to Network Rail for the regular checks they do on the health of the habitat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, Donington Road said: it is the things that lurk in the long grass I'm wary of. Velociraptors? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) 10/07/2020: views of work on Lincoln Road bridge: Edited July 10, 2020 by Crun 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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