ForestPines Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Stapleton Road viaduct update: the cast concrete support pillars for the new viaduct look to be almost complete, and I noticed advance warning signs for a forthcoming road closure: presumably this means the bridge deck (which has been sat on the ground ready for a few weeks now) is shortly going to be lifted into place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platform 1 Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Couldn't find this referenced yet, so here is Network Rail's Stapleton Road factsheet. Timeline is bottom right... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 (edited) Thanks for that fact sheet! The June/July installation of the span over Stapleton Road is tonight, according to the road closure notice. Which does explain how a one-night project can be June/July. Update: the span is on top of the temporary staging work ready to be slid into place tonight. I don't think I will stay up to watch! Edited June 30, 2018 by ForestPines Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Managed to get a few photos of the new bridge at Stapleton Road and some others of the progress of 4-tracking the Filton Bank. Stapleton Road. Between Filton and Ashley Hill. Between Stapleton Rd and Lawrence Hill. Finally, the result of trying to take pictures of the down side from the up side. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Are those bridge girders already rusty? I would have thought they would have been painted, or is that being left to the local graffiti vandals? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Some steels are designed to finish to a natural light rust, it's only surface oxidation and provides a surprisingly natural finish that blends in to surroundings Jo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Some steels are designed to finish to a natural light rust, it's only surface oxidation and provides a surprisingly natural finish that blends in to surroundings Jo 'Corten' being the trade-name, I believe. Used on the new bowstring girder bridge west of Manchester Oxford Road, and on the 'Angel of the North'. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 What they need in Bristol are surfaces to which paint will not stick! Geoff Endacott 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2018 What they need in Bristol are surfaces to which paint will not stick! Geoff Endacott Paint doesn't stick to well to rust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 The MetroBus route M2 opened yesterday and so I exercised my bus pass this morning to see where the new route goes. In principle it runs from the Long Ashton Park and Ride to Cabot Circus, as the old P & R service used to do. However, the route has changed significantly and I was interested to see what views it opened up of the ralway infrastructure - past and present. The route starts by wandering off across country to link up with the new flyover where the buslink crosses the Portbury branch - at a great height. Wannabee Banksies have already been in action. From there is runs across the back of the old S&T depot, which is now completely invisible in new growth, and reaches the former double deck bridge that took the railway into the docks - with the A370 on top. This is now a single lane busway and footpath. At the end of the bridge, you can see the former branch to Cannons Marsh. The route then follows the New Cut, with the harbour branch to the right. From the top deck, you get a glimpse of the short siding just before the line goes under the road into Wapping Wharf. You go within sight of Temple Meads (a promise to include TM when the roadworks are complete) and round Cabot Circus and the city centre. The return journey passes the end of the Princes Street bridge, over the harbour line tunnel under St Mary Redcliffe and back onto Cumberland Road. There is a brief glimpse of the site of the former railway bridge at the entrance from the Floating Harbour into the Bathurst Basin. Back along Cumberland Road, you can get a top deck view of the harbour branch as it runs alongside the road. At the end by the tobacco bonds, there was still a surprising amount of track to be seen. Then back over the swing bridge. And up and over the Portbury branch (looking south towards the junction and Freightliner depot). I am sure that there are teething problems with a project like this - quite a lot of passengers seemed confused by the "ticket before boarding" rule and by the new route. It is also not obvious that Cumberland Road will be easier to navigate than Hotwells Road in the rush hour so I would not be surprised to see a fair amount of tinkering before the project settles down. However, for what it is worth, it does offer some new views of Bristol! Best wishes Eric 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Those are not the results of 'wannabe Banksy's - pure wanton vandalism. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoholic Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Does the steam train not go along the track towards the tobacco warehouse any more? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 They had to shorten the track and rebuild the platform there, IFAIR. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 In other Bristol news: there are no trains North out of Temple Meads, either via Filton Abbey Wood or on the Severn Beach branch, for three weeks starting Oct 27th as part of the Filton Bank four-track project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2018 Does the steam train not go along the track towards the tobacco warehouse any more? The operating line currently ends near Vauxhall Bridge until the BHR know what is going to happen about the subsidence further along the bank. Hopefully this can be repaired, and the line can once more go all the way to the warehouses. The site of the new halt is visible in one of the above photos, you can see the fresh ballast on a straight line (where previously this would have curved to cross the bridge). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Is it my imagination or are there buried rails on the left of the entrance to the Babcock factory(?) in the first picture of the sequence? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2018 Is it my imagination or are there buried rails on the left of the entrance to the Babcock factory(?) in the first picture of the sequence? There did used to be a siding into the works. And before the works was built, there was a colliery there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2018 I was having a reminisce yesterday about Bristol, I visited there a few years ago, could have been 10, for a meeting at a Network Rail office I think. Pretty sure it was somewhere near Prince Street as I remember driving over the bridge (can you still do that?) I do find it odd that many, many years ago the A38 used to pass right through Queens Square 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I was having a reminisce yesterday about Bristol, I visited there a few years ago, could have been 10, for a meeting at a Network Rail office I think. Pretty sure it was somewhere near Prince Street as I remember driving over the bridge (can you still do that?) I do find it odd that many, many years ago the A38 used to pass right through Queens Square You can still drive over Prince St Bridge southbound. I often sit and eat my sandwiches in Queen Square and find it very hard to imagine what it must have been like when a road went through the middle of it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2018 Those are not the results of 'wannabe Banksy's - pure wanton vandalism. A large hole, no witnesses and a good cover story - "they ran away to sea" springs to mind. If damaging or defacing property in this manner carried a worthwhile removal of freedom and reduction in personal rights our cities would be much more pleasurable place, and with a reduced population ..... That is my inner dark thoughts but perhaps seen as not PC - sorry !! The real fun starts 15th Sept with Bristol parkway reconnections and carry on later with the Dr Days end - XC start with a Sevren tunnel and Patchway- FAW diversion and later a couple of weeks via Kemble , Swindon and Bath, with reduced services and taking longer. The first block overlaps with Derby Phase 2 so now is the time to look at jolly misery/ mystery tours - bring Tizer and sarnies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium HillsideDepot Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2018 You can still drive over Prince St Bridge southbound. I often sit and eat my sandwiches in Queen Square and find it very hard to imagine what it must have been like when a road went through the middle of it! It was fine, a dual carriageway straight across, with a wider central reservation to get round the guy on his horse. It was a bus lane and a traffic lane in each direction and flowed wonderfully. Apart from the buses, Queen Square wasn't really on the way to anywhere except very local destinations, so never that busy. Indeed bus driver could keep their speed by straying out of their lane by the statue and keeping the vehicle in a straight line. Then they closed the road through the middle and buses went round the edge, now buses have to go the other side of the buildings on a stop-start tortuous route with tight right angle corners. Hardly and improvement, taking greater time and covering a longer distance; more fuel used, and more pumped out the other end. Progress? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Other than Queen Square being a very pleasant place to sit and eat sandwiches, not full of bus fumes like it was ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 5, 2018 There did used to be a siding into the works. And before the works was built, there was a colliery there. As seen here https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=51.4396&lon=-2.6253&layers=168&b=1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted September 5, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 5, 2018 Other than Queen Square being a very pleasant place to sit and eat sandwiches, not full of bus fumes like it was ...And a meeting place for the Queen's square breakfast club, where Bristolians with classic cars meet up on Sunday mornings. It would be impossible with the old road layout. Neil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 (edited) You can still drive over Prince St Bridge southbound. I often sit and eat my sandwiches in Queen Square and find it very hard to imagine what it must have been like when a road went through the middle of it! No wonder I got strange looks last time I drove over it Northbound (using the old Southbound side). TBH, I didn't see any prohibition signs for the manoeuvre I did... Edited September 6, 2018 by talisman56 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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