East Coast Mainline Blockade for Werrington Junction diveunder

[Crun]

A view from Hurn Road. Yet more tarmac at the entrance to the old service road:

 

 

 

 

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Views from Hurn Road. Fresh tarmac at the entrance to the new service road:

 

 

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Views from Hurn Road bridge. More landscaping and soil dumping:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mini roll:

 

 

 

 

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Views west from the A15 bridge. More fencing and re-profiled embankments:

 

 

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Views east from the A15 bridge:

 

 

 

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Views from Lincoln Road bridge. Hull Trains route learning?

 

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Views north from the  Lincoln Road bridge. Lots of boys on the black stuff...

 

 

 

 

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[35A]

1 hour ago, Crun said:

Views from Hurn Road. The new service road:

 

 

Original image, included for context.

 

Wow. This one brought back a cascade of memories. Memories of back in the day, when the LC was still in place, when we used to cycle up to Hurn Road in the school holidays (occasionally Waterworks Lane), as a variation on Walton crossing or Spital Bridge;  standing on the old GNR footbridge, looking down, as a Deltic accelerated away on the down fast, trying to position ourselves between the V of the exhausts;  watching the crossing keeper attending to the gates, as the occasional road vehicle trundled down;  the occasional pedestrian (rare) ambling along.

 

Thanks to all who have been following this project for us, for the past couple of years. It's been fantastic to follow - especially for those of us Peterborians who are no longer in the area and only visit, periodically, to see friends and family - and, consequently, rarely have the time to seek out old haunts. It has been much appreciated.

[Donington Road]

Morgan Sindall; Spoil Shifters Extraordinaire

This was the view from Cock Lane yesterday afternoon.  The dozer on the right was pushing soil towards the main site.

 

 

24 hours later we now have a large mound of earth in the same place.  The dozer has not done that all by itself surely?

 

 

Nope, the yellow excavator is loading the two dump trucks up and they are taking it the great distance of......................50 yards away, unbelievable!

Someone obviously knows what they are doing, but it sure is a puzzle.

 

 

 

That's it for the day, maybe we will make another pile near the entrance gate tomorrow.

 

 

Spare a thought for the gentleman manning the entrance.  He still has his comfy office chair to sit on but someone has pinched his office.......................

 

 

..............but they were good enough to leave his heater and a couple of visitors chairs behind so he should survive the winter.

 

 

 

 

 

[corneliuslundie]

If you have shares in companies making metal fencing sell them now as once this job is finished the market will halve!

Seriously, I can't believe that all that fencing is necessary, even allowing for the idiots that we now seem to breed.

And I have been wondering for some time why so much soil has to be moved short distances around the site so frequently.

Jonathan

[woodenhead]

On 28/10/2021 at 18:33, Donington Road said:

Spare a thought for the gentleman manning the entrance.  He still has his comfy office chair to sit on but someone has pinched his office.......................

..............but they were good enough to leave his heater and a couple of visitors chairs behind so he should survive the winter.

 

And a coat stand should be get too hot by the heater.

 

I do hope the bin is for rubbish and isn't the new toilet block.

 

[Crun]

Sunday 31st October

 

Views from Lincoln Road bridge. Ballast train and rail-mounted excavators at Glinton Junction:

 

 

 

 

 

Looking towards Werrington on Lincoln Road:

 

 

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[Crun]

Hurn Road bridge with queuing Azumas heading north. I can see two north and two south of the bridge. North of Peterborough there's been damage to OHLE on the ECML. Massive queue of trains:

 

 

 

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[melmerby]

If you look on Railcam diagrams there are at least a dozen northbound trains in a queue slowly moving through Grantham

The lead train (1S13) is just short of Newark and is currently  240 late

 

LNER say OHLE problems at Peterborough, now fixed, but delays for the rest of the day.

 

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1S13 now travelling at some pace and not losing anymore time.

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[Crun]

Views from around Cock Lane bridge. One of many stationary Azumas on the ECML north of Peterborough station:

 

 

 

 

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Views west from Cock Lane bridge. Soil moving:

 

 

 

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[Crun]

30 minutes ago, melmerby said:

If you look on Railcam diagrams there are at least a dozen northbound trains in a queue slowly moving through Grantham

The lead train (1S13) is just short of Newark and is currently  240 late

 

LNER say OHLE problems at Peterborough, now fixed, but delays for the rest of the day.

 

EDIT

1S13 now travelling at some pace and not losing anymore time.

Multiple trees down over a large area around Tallington, more have come down since the line was reopened, hence trains all stuck again.
BBC reporting a mini tornado struck Long Buckby area with a tweet from Earl Spencer showing multiple trees down at Althorpe near Long Buckby: Storm disruption at Euston station holds up COP26 travellers - BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-59110091

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Views north from Cock Lane bridge, with another halted Azuma:

 

 

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Views south from Cock Lane bridge:

 

 

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[Crun]

Tuesday 2nd November

 

Views from Hurn Road bridge. Earth moving. Soundproof fence panels removed:

 

 

Earth moving. Sound-proof fencing panels removed: 

 

 

 

 

Adding to yet another pile of earth:

 

 

Better views of trains on the GNGE:

 

 

 

RHTT 

 

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[Donington Road]

On 28/10/2021 at 18:33, Donington Road said:

Morgan Sindall; Spoil Shifters Extraordinaire

 

That's it for the day, maybe we will make another pile near the entrance gate tomorrow.

 

 

Well, I though I was joking when I suggested making a new pile near the entrance gate.

This was yesterday........................

 

.............and this is today and it's still growing

 

 

 

[Donington Road]

Still moving soil, with a purpose this time.

 

 

[Donington Road]

More green fencing going up at Hurn Road separating the retention pond (the green grassy area behind) from the field.

 

 

 

Landscaping of the area to the left of the roller yesterday and today the area to the right has been hardcored and rolled. This is on the embankment between the Joint Line and the new lines and just before the northern entrance to the dive under tunnel.

 

 

What's this chap up to in the field west of the Stamford Lines at Hurn Road?

 

 

Testing a new jetpack?

 

 

Nope, he's spraying the weeds.  I think it's going to take a long time to do the whole field.

 

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

A mighty fine job these blokes have done to build a new bit of Railway............... But. It begs the question, could the Victorian builders, if they had come back today, with all there marvels of Technology, 'Shovel, Spade, Pick a Wheelbarrow' have built it quicker, most of the GN section of the ECML, was built in only a few years ????????

 

manna

[jamie92208]

19 minutes ago, manna said:

G'Day Folks

 

A mighty fine job these blokes have done to build a new bit of Railway............... But. It begs the question, could the Victorian builders, if they had come back today, with all there marvels of Technology, 'Shovel, Spade, Pick a Wheelbarrow' have built it quicker, most of the GN section of the ECML, was built in only a few years ????????

 

manna

With the amount of labour they used, a new railway could have been built. However  a dive under in saturated ground, probably not. They would probably have built a flyover and yes that could have been done. The bridge would have needed to be  similar to the one at Little Bytham that carried the M & GN.

 

Jamie