Black Bridge near Machynlleth

[corneliuslundie]

I only yesterday actually came across this post about the raising of Black Bridge to prevent future flooding:

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/wales/black-bridge-improvements/

Work is scheduled to be finished this weekend. We shall have trains again.

Jonathan

[NCB]

Here's a pic of the work, with location:

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6860973

 

Also a pic of a silent Machynlleth station:

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6860945

Doesn't take long for the railheads to get rusty. Hadn't realised that the signal box had gone, and the old goods shed.

Nigel

Edited June 24, 2021 by NCB

[corneliuslundie]

It is worth looking at the time lapse video on the NR site.

Jonathan

[PenrithBeacon]

Is Network Rail re-installing the existing bridge or will it be a replacement?

[corneliuslundie]

It looks like the same bridge, simply (?) raised a metre.

J

[NCB]

5 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

It is worth looking at the time lapse video on the NR site.

Jonathan

Saw the reference to the time-lapsed video, but couldn't find the video itself.

Nigel

 

Edit: had a look at the page source and managed to extract the link to the video.

Edited June 24, 2021 by NCB

[corneliuslundie]

I don't seem to be able to copy the video address but if you go to Transport for Wales, click on the Travel Updates heading at the top of the page. This will bring up a white band with three columns of options. In the centre column (Planning ahead), click on the top option, Planned improvement works.

In the red box there are three items, the middle one being ours. Click on the down arrow.

The third para starts "More details" and ends with "here"

Click on "here" and it will take you to the relevant page on the NR website.

Below the photo there is some text and below that is the video.

All of 55 seconds. It takes longer to find it.

Jonathan

 

 

[John-Miles]

Raising the bridge will help but it will only require a tree to get caught on the central pier and there will again be a danger of the bridge acting as a dam. I was once called out to a flooding incident where a house which was about 5 metres above a small river was flooded due to a shopping trolley getting stuck in a culvert.

[corneliuslundie]

Our son's house was flooded because the council had not cleared out a nearby culvert under the road.

I sometimes wonder about the bridge at Buttington, though there are flood relief arches. In winter the fields to the north of the line there are often under water. And further west the "airport road" (past Mid Wales International Airport - I am not joking) is one of the first to flood.

Jonathan

[corneliuslundie]

Update now the project is complete:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57626232

Jonathan

[NCB]

Good video on that link.