Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Friday 7th May. Don't fence me in... Views from temporary Lincoln Road footbridge, looking towards Werrington: Edited May 7, 2021 by Crun 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Views of Lincoln Road bridge. Looking towards Glinton: Edited May 7, 2021 by Crun 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Views from Hurn Road bridge. Looking South East. Soil is going, going, gone... Looking south: Edited May 7, 2021 by Crun 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Crun said: Friday 7th May. Views from Lincoln Road footbridge: Nice update from Lincoln Road Chris. If that is the final fencing then it should be a nice place to get photos from in the future. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Donington Road said: Posted on Twitter today. EDIT: I don't know how old these photos are, the second photo shows a short pipe across the entrance at the top of the dive under. When I made the video last week the whole of this pipe has been installed around the site. It is the diversion pipe for Werrington Drain. I walked through the tunnel this morning and the shot Creet is just about finished. the level of the floor is now up to the height of the concrete walkway on the left of the last picture 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Views of the Lincoln Road bridge, looking east from the A15: Edited May 7, 2021 by Crun 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Views west from the A15 bridge: Edited May 7, 2021 by Crun 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Views towards Lincoln Road bridge: Edited May 7, 2021 by Crun 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Looking north from Cock Lane bridge: Edited May 10, 2021 by Crun 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted May 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2021 (edited) Took a quick look at Lincoln Road between rain showers earlier. The offices that used to be at Lincoln Road had disappeared by this time last week. The hessian surfacing of the cutting side has continued beyond the Lincoln Road bridges. Some work going on around the drains, ballast was being tipped a little later on to surround the drains. Mentioning the bridges there are two panels of fencing, one each side of the road, that have not been completed yet and are merely filled with the crowd control type barriers at present. And there is work going on around the land bridge/siphons in the centre of the site. The dumper in the first picture is also see facing us in the second one ... I was surprised at how much vehicle use of the trackbase has shifted the ballast and created ruts. I suspect that there will be very little visible progress now until the Bailey bridge is removed and when track laying commences. Edited May 10, 2021 by Richard E added another picture/comment 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Film by werrington junction of trains around Werrington Junction in early May 2021: 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Brilliant footage - many thanks. Just goes to show how busy that stretch of line is. I wonder where those 4 x 91's (or were they DVT's?) were going? At least one liner train, whilst crossing over to the Joint, held up an LNER service - those are cracking trains by the way....................... too soon? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 10 minutes ago, Mike Storey said: Brilliant footage - many thanks. Just goes to show how busy that stretch of line is. I wonder where those 4 x 91's (or were they DVT's?) were going? At least one liner train, whilst crossing over to the Joint, held up an LNER service - those are cracking trains by the way....................... too soon? Might the 91s be the ones destined for scrapping at Sims in Newport? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 11, 2021 10 minutes ago, Fat Controller said: Might the 91s be the ones destined for scrapping at Sims in Newport? Yes those are they, there were some photos of the on the Hitachi thread last night. A bit ironic as the 91 set is in service today. Jamie 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Storey Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 On 29/04/2021 at 17:01, melmerby said: Why did they remove one of the platforms? I know a lot of the outer suburban services now use St. P. Thameslink but surely KX could still use all it had? Only just seen this - sorry. They could not use all the platforms they had, because several of them were too short for many trains (8 cars max), and several of the main line platforms were marginal for 9 car Mark IV sets, let alone the longest Azuma sets. The remodelling allows all platforms to be lengthened, and this required removal of Platform 11. This allows a much greater increase in capacity overall, apparently - many 8 car GN sets can be increased to 12 car, for a start - and greater flexibility in operation for all services. Remember, until the addition of Platform 0 some 10 years ago, Kings X only had 11 platforms, since the 1970's. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 3 hours ago, Mike Storey said: Brilliant footage - many thanks. Just goes to show how busy that stretch of line is. I wonder where those 4 x 91's (or were they DVT's?) were going? At least one liner train, whilst crossing over to the Joint, held up an LNER service - those are cracking trains by the way....................... too soon? Thanks for watching Mike. The four 91's where going from Doncaster to Sims Metal at Newport, South Wales for scrapping. If you watch any videos on RMweb, sometimes it is better to click the 'Watch on Youtube' button, there you will usually get a description of what the video is about plus you may comment and also give it a like/dislike too which is something you cannot do by just watching them on RMweb. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 (edited) Wednesday 12th May. A few more sleepers. Views south from Hurn Road bridge: Edited May 12, 2021 by Crun 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted May 13, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 13, 2021 On 11/05/2021 at 17:18, Mike Storey said: Remember, until the addition of Platform 0 some 10 years ago, Kings X only had 11 platforms, since the 1970's. Actually once the 1970s remodelling was complete Kings Cross only had 10 platforms - what became platform 11 was lifted as not required at the time only to be reinstated a decade later in the mid 1980s by NSE as outer suburban usage increased. That was followed by platform zero in Network Rail days giving 12 platforms in total until the most recent remodelling started which has knocked it back to 11. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 (edited) Thursday 13th May. More sleepers by the day. Views south from Hurn Road bridge: Edited May 13, 2021 by Crun 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted May 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Crun said: Thursday 13th May. More sleepers by the day. Views south from Hurn Road bridge: Looks quite a sharp transition curve off the new line into the existing (realigned) Joint line. Or is the lens exaggerating it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted May 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2021 23 hours ago, Crun said: Wednesday 12th May. A few more sleepers. Views south from Hurn Road bridge: That Azuma looks like it daren't show it's face! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) Friday 14th May. More rails. Views south from Hurn Road bridge: Edited May 15, 2021 by Crun 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) Trains on the ECML by Trackside ECML. A 225 back in service: Edited May 14, 2021 by Crun 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted May 15, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 15, 2021 Some pictures from yesterday. Starting at Lincoln Road the tarmac work including the footpath has now been completed. The only issue I can see is that the bridge parapet on the old bridge seems quite low so may need extending to match the pallisade fence. As has all the fencing with the gap that was there last week now filled. You can see here that the pallisade fencing and the parapet of the new bridge is the same height. Moving on to Hurn Road footbridge the track that used to run down to the relay room is still there and looks to be in good condition. I noticed this valve manifold assembly by the dive under from the footbridge. The spoil heaps have almost gone from this side. However there are some heaps of rubble about waiting to be dealt with. I know we had a very similar image from Crun but I couldn't help adding my own version. Whilst here I also saw this example of a prototype for everything scene. And finally moving to Cock Lane I got these. The big pile of ballast that was in the entry to the dive under has gone being spread along the trackbed into the 'tunnel'. Looking south the accommodation crossing for access to the dive under from the Trading Estate is still there but, apart from that, it looks ready to accept the new track. The spoil the other side is still very much in evidence. Finally, and not surprisingly, the wooden rail fence is already a casualty of the local 'youff' mob. 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Richard E said: Some pictures from yesterday. Starting at Lincoln Road the tarmac work including the footpath has now been completed. The only issue I can see is that the bridge parapet on the old bridge seems quite low so may need extending to match the pallisade fence. As has all the fencing with the gap that was there last week now filled. You can see here that the pallisade fencing and the parapet of the new bridge is the same height. Moving on to Hurn Road footbridge the track that used to run down to the relay room is still there and looks to be in good condition. I noticed this valve manifold assembly by the dive under from the footbridge. The spoil heaps have almost gone from this side. However there are some heaps of rubble about waiting to be dealt with. I know we had a very similar image from Crun but I couldn't help adding my own version. Whilst here I also saw this example of a prototype for everything scene. And finally moving to Cock Lane I got these. The big pile of ballast that was in the entry to the dive under has gone being spread along the trackbed into the 'tunnel'. Looking south the accommodation crossing for access to the dive under from the Trading Estate is still there but, apart from that, it looks ready to accept the new track. The spoil the other side is still very much in evidence. Finally, and not surprisingly, the wooden rail fence is already a casualty of the local 'youff' mob. Spot the rabbit lounging on the track to the old relay room! Thanks for the set of photographs Richard. Still cold out with drizzle threatening... Edited May 15, 2021 by Crun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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