Ron Ron Ron Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Edwin_m said: Looks like they've opened up a big tin of track colour and got together some aerosols for weathering it. Nah ! That big tank of green goo, is for pouring over the ragtag rebellion troublemakers, if they come too close. . 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 On 08/09/2021 at 14:23, Bernard Lamb said: Goods news and bad news. The remains of a Saxon church have been found while investigating the area around St Mary's old church Stoke Mandeville. There are several open days coming up. Travelling into Euston the other day I noticed a series of large circular holes in the blue engineering brick walls visible as you approach the station from Camden. Expert care and conservation work on the one hand and blatant vandalism on the other. Bernard On 08/09/2021 at 14:23, Bernard Lamb said: Goods news and bad news. The remains of a Saxon church have been found while investigating the area around St Mary's old church Stoke Mandeville. There are several open days coming up. Travelling into Euston the other day I noticed a series of large circular holes in the blue engineering brick walls visible as you approach the station from Camden. Expert care and conservation work on the one hand and blatant vandalism on the other. Bernard local councillor in Aylesbury jumping up and down demanding action abot the discovery of 400 bodies at STOKE manderville. He has made several wild statements since he joined the council and is an idiot.The remains found are below the first discovery and are very small the bodies will be disinternstered soon and the dig will finnish probably next month .When I saw the councillors comments I thought that there had been a massacre in the town ! 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 1 hour ago, lmsforever said: local councillor in Aylesbury jumping up and down demanding action abot the discovery of 400 bodies at STOKE manderville. He has made several wild statements since he joined the council and is an idiot.The remains found are below the first discovery and are very small the bodies will be disinternstered soon and the dig will finnish probably next month .When I saw the councillors comments I thought that there had been a massacre in the town ! A good job he does not know the full story or he would be having a fit. It is actually about 3000 bodies that have been recovered. mainly from the known church yard location. I think we need to build a modern version of Grimms Ditch to stop him heading our way. Do you know the location of the new cemetery where they will be re-interred? Bernard 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2021 9 minutes ago, Bernard Lamb said: A good job he does not know the full story or he would be having a fit. It is actually about 3000 bodies that have been recovered. mainly from the known church yard location. I think we need to build a modern version of Grimms Ditch to stop him heading our way. Do you know the location of the new cemetery where they will be re-interred? Bernard He probably hasn't heard about the much larger numbers found in London & Birmingham at the excavations there. Also when built the line into the East of New Street Station went through an old cemetery (the same one as HS2), so it's far from a new phenomenon. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 11 minutes ago, Bernard Lamb said: A good job he does not know the full story or he would be having a fit. It is actually about 3000 bodies that have been recovered. mainly from the known church yard location. I think we need to build a modern version of Grimms Ditch to stop him heading our way. Do you know the location of the new cemetery where they will be re-interred? Bernard It is strange how he is throwing his teddy out of the cot about these bodies when currently North Tyneside council only allow residents at their cemeteries about 35 years undisturbed in the afterlife before the possibility of eviction! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted September 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2021 I'd like to put on record that I'm happy to be dug up and replaced with a railway line. 5 3 1 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, martin_wynne said: I'd like to put on record that I'm happy to be dug up and replaced with a railway line. When HS2 was first announced I did suggest that our Model Railway Club should have a collecting bin for members ashes so that it could be donated as fill for the new line. As mentioned above this is nothing new. A large burial ground was cleared on the approaches to St Pancras, and there was concern about how the job was done. When the NER built it's connecting line actoss Leeds they went over part of the burial ground for Leeds Parish Church. To avoid controversy they built the embankment on top of the graveyard and the displaced headstones are now laid on the embankment sides. Jamie Edited September 11, 2021 by jamie92208 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 3 hours ago, melmerby said: He probably hasn't heard about the much larger numbers found in London & Birmingham at the excavations there. Also when built the line into the East of New Street Station went through an old cemetery (the same one as HS2), so it's far from a new phenomenon. Perhaps even more bizarrely, one of the ticket halls of Bank Underground station was built in the crypt of St Mary's Woolnough, with the bodies being removed and reburied elsewhere! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 I do hope all the people responsible for building over cemeteries have seen the film "Poltergeist"? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 42 minutes ago, JeffP said: I do hope all the people responsible for building over cemeteries have seen the film "Poltergeist"? Don't worry about it most engineers carry such a disbelief field about them that no such phenomena can survive contact. It is a bit like the comment in Peter Pan that a Fairy dies if a child says that they do not believe in them, with Engineers we just have to walk into the same area to exterminate everything. Spiritual 2-4-5 T are us. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted September 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2021 When I was driving for Guide Friday in Stratford in '96, the guides said that the churches in the area dug up the coffins every 50 years and burned the bones, this leading to the term bonfire. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 11, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2021 2 hours ago, JeffP said: I do hope all the people responsible for building over cemeteries have seen the film "Poltergeist"? Ah, but they didn't move the bodies 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Chilterns Tunnels. Before the concrete "roadway" has been laid...... After the "roadway" has been laid...... . 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Concrete tunnel sections being transported to the TBM.... . 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 On 14/09/2021 at 17:16, Ron Ron Ron said: Advertising how clean the railway is...on a diesel. Ok, so cleaner than a convoy of lorries, but wouldn't this make more sense on something electric? A class 90 perhaps? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 With site clearance and site preparation almost complete and with enabling works (moving utilities etc,) quite advanced, construction works on the Curzon St. station has started. Piling work has commenced. . 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Ron Ron Ron said: Concrete tunnel sections being transported to the TBM.... . Someone mentioned that they are not laying a narrow gauge tunnel railway in this tunnel. I assume what looks like a railway track in the concrete roadway is actually something else. 3 minutes ago, Pete the Elaner said: Advertising how clean the railway is...on a diesel. Ok, so cleaner than a convoy of lorries, but wouldn't this make more sense on something electric? A class 90 perhaps? The trains that haul the spoil and materials trains can't be electric because none of their routes are fully electrified. One might have been if the government had agreed electrification of EWR. So naming an electric would probably attract even more criticism. Edited September 16, 2021 by Edwin_m 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 (edited) Old Oak Common from above. The Heathrow Express depot closed a while back and is now being stripped out and decommissioned, ready for demolition. You can see the HEX sidings are being removed. A monster sized, portacabin office block is being erected to the left of the HEX depot, to house site offices. The GWML track formation will be slewed and widened to accommodate the 8 GWML platforms and tracks. It will extend to approximately where the tall green silos are located. Work on the tunnel box site, to the left, alongside the Crossrail depot, involves piling work to allow the construction of the box retaining walls. . Edited September 16, 2021 by Ron Ron Ron 7 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, Edwin_m said: Someone mentioned that they are not laying a narrow gauge tunnel railway in this tunnel. I assume what looks like a railway track in the concrete roadway is actually something else. ..... There is no narrow gauge railway. The 'roadway' has the tunnel drainage built into it and the moving bridge has passed along that section, so I don't know if the apparent marks are related to either of those? . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 Meanwhile, at Long Itchington Woods...... Assembly of the TBM cutting head and preparation of the launch pad (old photos...assembly is now more advanced). Note the size of the TBM compared to the dude standing inside it. . 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 To get an idea of the depth of the concrete roadway, being laid in the base of the tunnel, look where the dude in the orange suit is standing in this photo. The top of the vertical sides (not the sloping sides) of the launch pad, align with the top of the roadway when laid. This photo was obviously taken before the roadway had been laid. The roadway provides a flat base to the tunnel, enabling construction vehicles and plant to be more easily moved within the tunnel, will provide the foundation upon which the trackbed will eventually be constructed and contains the tunnel drainage. . 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 1.5km into the Earth, the tail end of Cecilia. Look at the guy on the side of the TBM, by the slurry pipes, to get an idea of the size of the tunnel bore. . 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ron Ron Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 The Chilterns Tunnel, south portal site, showing the outside storage area, containing the concrete tunnel sections. Also, more covered structures have been added to this huge construction site (on the left). . 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted September 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 16, 2021 Ipresume the the new buildings are to do with the viaduct pieces. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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