RMweb Gold Tankerman Posted July 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2021 8 hours ago, Crun said: Friday 2nd July Views east from Lincoln Road bridge. Looks better IMHO: Some spadework: I don't know how big the man is that's going to lift the rail using the handles is the last photo, but if I were to meet him I would be very deferential. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 12 hours ago, Donington Road said: The supports for the old temporary footbridge are being broken up at Lincoln Road. It would have been nice to have had a railing put around them and the platform used by photograhers videoing trains. The one on the Werrington side is still untouched. Shame they are going. I can just see you on your plinth Mick! 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Crun said: Trains Around Werrington Junction in late June. A film by Werrington Junction: Crun, will you please delete your post of my video. Videos and photos of normal daily trains going about their business are not relevant to this topic. Thank you. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 2 minutes ago, Donington Road said: Crun, will you please delete your post of my video. Videos and photos of normal daily trains going about their business are not relevant to this topic. Thank you. Sorry. Gone. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) Sunday 4th July Views of work on Lincoln Road bridge parapets. Looking towards Glinton: Looking towards Werrington: Edited July 5, 2021 by Crun 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) Views east of new ballast from Lincoln Road bridge: Tamper arrived ahead of schedule it seems: Edited July 7, 2021 by Crun 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) Views west of ballast spreading from Lincoln Road bridge: Edited July 4, 2021 by Crun 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) Views of tamper from Hurn Road: Edited July 4, 2021 by Crun 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) Views west from Hurn Road: Views of vanishing spoil heap from Hurn Road: Edited July 4, 2021 by Crun 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 (edited) Views east from the A15 bridge: Views west from the A15 bridge: Edited July 4, 2021 by Crun 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted July 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Crun said: Views west from Hurn Road: It looks as if another batch of rail has been delivered as well. Lovely to see new railway com8ng along. Thanks yet again to all of you for the photos. Jamie 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 19 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: It looks as if another batch of rail has been delivered as well. Lovely to see new railway com8ng along. Thanks yet again to all of you for the photos. Jamie It is all the rail that was stored on the Joint Line for months. They started dragging the rails down to the dive under in stages at the end of May, quite a laborious task. Here is a link to the post where it shows them in the process. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/110286-east-coast-mainline-blockade-for-werrington-junction-diveunder/&do=findComment&comment=4458969 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted July 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2021 I'm going to show my ignorance now of the tracklaying process. I thought I had been paying attention throughout but there is something I don't think I have noticed being done, maybe I missed it when the up Stamford was put in place? When the track is laid and new ballast put down there is a point where the track has to be "tensioned" - is that the correct word? - i.e. all those kinks straightened out and pre tensioned to allow for temperature expansion. How exactly is that done? Presumably that will not be done on this new section of track until the rest of it, in the dive under, is also laid and connected at the other end? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 1 hour ago, highpeakman said: I'm going to show my ignorance now of the tracklaying process. I thought I had been paying attention throughout but there is something I don't think I have noticed being done, maybe I missed it when the up Stamford was put in place? When the track is laid and new ballast put down there is a point where the track has to be "tensioned" - is that the correct word? - i.e. all those kinks straightened out and pre tensioned to allow for temperature expansion. How exactly is that done? Presumably that will not be done on this new section of track until the rest of it, in the dive under, is also laid and connected at the other end? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8EZ6pEAyLc Further reading: https://www.trackopedia.info/encyclopedia/maintenance-of-way/tools-and-small-machines/rail-pulling-devices https://www.thepwi.org/technical_hub_journal_technical_articles/pwi_journal_october_2017_vol_135_part_4/pwi_journal_1017_vol135_pt4_-_rail_thermal_force_calculations_for_jointed_track-_article_3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold highpeakman Posted July 4, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2021 14 minutes ago, Donington Road said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8EZ6pEAyLc Further reading: https://www.trackopedia.info/encyclopedia/maintenance-of-way/tools-and-small-machines/rail-pulling-devices https://www.thepwi.org/technical_hub_journal_technical_articles/pwi_journal_october_2017_vol_135_part_4/pwi_journal_1017_vol135_pt4_-_rail_thermal_force_calculations_for_jointed_track-_article_3 Thank for the links. Very helpful. But sorry, I should have searched online before asking. I just wondered if I had missed something on this thread, although I did look back, when it was being done on the up Stamford. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, highpeakman said: Thank for the links. Very helpful. But sorry, I should have searched online before asking. I just wondered if I had missed something on this thread, although I did look back, when it was being done on the up Stamford. It is small things like this that tend to get done during nighttime closures when we are all tucked up in bed. Sometimes interesting aspects of what goes on get missed during the day as well, unless by luck we happen to be there at the right time. Since a lot of personel around the site have now left the project our sources of information of what was going take place at a particular time have diminished so it is now a game of second guessing what might happen on a particular day. Even Network Rail's newsletters can be a bit ambiguous at times. Crun got lucky today photographing the tamper as that was not due come until the 16th July weekend. Stressing of the rails is due to take place during the week of 16th - 19th July, then again at the end of the month. Here is the schedule that we have to go on. 1 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) Monday 5th July Views of installed parapet plates on Lincoln Road bridge: Temporary bridge support nearly gone: Edited July 7, 2021 by Crun 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) Views of plates being installed on the A15 bridge from Hurn Road: Edited July 5, 2021 by Crun 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) Views of progress on track-laying from Hurn Road: Edited July 6, 2021 by Crun 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Tuesday 6th July N.B. These three were taken with a DSLR Camera as I dropped my mobile 'phone the previous day. Uploads may be later than before as I struggle with reducing the size of the images to below 10MB. I only have the Nikon software that came with the camera so any advice for other software that might be easier to use would be welcome. Demolishing the bridge support: Views from Hurn Road: Tell me if I am wrong, but I get the impression they are adding sheet metal on the road side of the railings to eliminate any horizontal bars for people to climb up and over: Edited July 8, 2021 by Crun 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted July 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2021 Had a wander today. Southern temporary bridge support being removed. This is one of two parts to be broken up. Fitting mesh to the bridge sides to stop debris from the road falling on to the tracks below. More rail being placed into position leading into the dive under. Looking into the dive under from Cock Lane bridge. Rail has been moved here ready for tracklaying. And looking south from Cock Lane bridge. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Richard E said: Had a wander today. More rail being placed into position leading into the dive under. Looking into the dive under from Cock Lane bridge. Rail has been moved here ready for tracklaying. And looking south from Cock Lane bridge. You have caught the first bit of action on the southern ramp for weeks Richard. To think all that rail has been manhandled from as far as Foxcovert Road. That has been a lot of labour intensitve work to get it there. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 (edited) Wednesday 7th July Views of work on another concrete support at the Lincoln Road bridge: Edited July 7, 2021 by Crun 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 (edited) Views of dive under from Hurn Road bridge: Still shifting soil: Edited July 7, 2021 by Crun 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crun Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 (edited) Views of broken up concrete; seemingly sorted into before and after piles: Still some surveying to be done: Edited July 7, 2021 by Crun 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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