two tone green Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 A slight breeze really. What all the fuss. http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php?storm=at4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 27, 2014 One thing is for sure - the K.O.C. at St. Agnes will be the first to know (but will they remember to tell anyone)?. They've also got new binoculars, and the cheese sandwich is an incentive to remember to tell the rest of Swagonia... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Also the seaweed will be renewed ,and surely it should be pasties sent not cheese sandwiches and a case of Doombar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) and a case of Doombar. They’ll definitely “forget” then....................and they are suspicious of the Cap’n’s Devonian motives viz Pasty suppliers. Best, Pete. Edited August 28, 2014 by trisonic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Thursday 28th August 2014 Could it be that the house that was undermined in the storm is now going to receive attention? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hope so - they'll have been waiting a long time, I don't think that anything to do with the railway reinstatement would have delayed their works, once the roadway was restored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted August 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 28, 2014 I suspect it would have taken all this time since Feb for the insurance to sort itself out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I suspect it would have taken all this time since Feb for the insurance to sort itself out! The insurers probably didnt make a drama out of a crisis, if they only took such a short time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Plumtree Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 On the Network Rail camera (updates every hour or so), it looks like there is a JCB on the beach, maybe emptying a container... When is work on raising the wall going to start? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Plumtree Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 On the Network Rail camera (updates every hour or so), it looks like there is a JCB on the beach, maybe emptying a container... When is work on raising the wall going to start? actually looks like it updates about every 15 mins or so... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted August 29, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 29, 2014 When is work on raising the wall going to start? There's further preparatory drilling into the low-level walkway going on, so in effect, the work of raising the walkway has now started. The first barge will be in position pretty soon, as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Don, Really appreciate your photos sir. Next time your down at Boat Cove can you see if some 'cops' by some intrepid spotter in the 70s/ early 80s are still there - I'm sure it used to say 46044 and 45xxx on the left hand side of the Kennaway tunnel portal, and last time I looked I think they were still there. In about 1983 I repainted a mainline 00 peak and renumbered it as 46044 using A1 detailing parts (who remembers them), with sealed beam headlights on the strength of the 46044 number at the tunnel entrance. If the number is still there god knows what was in the paint....... My favourite lower quadrant home signal, ( with sighting board) used to show a train was imminent in my summer holidays at the Beach Hotel in the 70s. Love your photos of Dawlish Don - just wish there was more freight. Matt Wood Just to confirm BR(S) photo refs took this photo this morning 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Friday 29th August Coryton Cove promenade Minor works started to steps & seats? signs? under the auspices of Teignbridge council and new life saving Aid still in box Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Shifting sands The small breakwater by the Old Lifeboat House on 18 th Aug and on 29th Aug The sand/ shingle against the breakwater has dropped one to two courses of stone and the concrete slip ways & bottom flat sill between them is now uncovered for the first time that I have seen it this year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 (edited) BRUNEL'S ATMOSPHERIC PIPE Tues was in Newton Abbot getting the car MOT'd so killed time with a visit to the GWR Museum near Devon Square (2a St. Paul's Road) having seen a pic on their web site a few months ago I was disappointed as it had been sent back to Swindon however there was a 12 inch "Slice" of one mounted on the wall surface close up showing corrosion of approx one & a half centuries Dimensions This example was 22.25 ins inside diameter outside diam. 23.375 ins slot was very corroded varying from 2.625 ins to 2.75 ins Top longitudinal flanges were 2.75 ins high the flanges around the pipe were at bottom max of 9 inches deep and about an inch thick ( forgot to actually measure them) The curator told me that Brunel also used a 16 " version of the pipe but as I was short on time did not get to see how he used two sizes on one railway anyone know more on that?? Edited August 29, 2014 by Granitechops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Coudnt get a decent shot but there were several orange army in the distance, other side of the low walkway with a digger on the beach waiting for the low tide Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Just to confirm BR(S) photo refs took this photo this morning 100_3722 (Large).JPG Thanks Don. Oh the time I spent there listening to a muffled Sulzer/English electric throb /Maybach (and later valenta) scream and waited in eager anticipation of what was going to come out of Kennaway on the up line. You knew when it was the up milk cos the three axle wagons made such a distinctive staccato noise......happy days. Matt Wood 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Thanks Don. You knew when it was the up milk cos the three axle wagons made such a distinctive staccato noise......happy days. Matt Wood Some Ex Totnes Dairies? Some Hayle Dairy? or were they on separate trains? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Some Ex Totnes Dairies? Some Hayle Dairy? or were they on separate trains? There used to be a whopper, early evening up from St Erth, combining with others at Lostwithiel.....often hauled by a 1000, and then post 76, by a 50 or 47. I don't remember whether that combined with traffic from Totnes or whether that was tripped to Riverside. Matt wood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 There used to be a whopper, early evening up from St Erth, combining with others at Lostwithiel.....often hauled by a 1000, and then post 76, by a 50 or 47. I don't remember whether that combined with traffic from Totnes or whether that was tripped to Riverside. Matt wood Yes of course St Erth, not Hayle, my dad worked in accounts there about '56 -'57 next door to Pickfords Removers depot. and in the late '60s I was involved in demolition at Totnes Dairies, right on the Station, cant remember, was it Dawes Creameries?? milk wagons were in a bay siding up towards the road overbridge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted August 30, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2014 I see that the containers are still there. When they are removed I assume that they will be cut up in situ. Would it be possible for some of the pieces to be auctioned off for charity? I am thinking of the more identifiable bits that have numbers or similar markings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 (edited) I see that the containers are still there. When they are removed I assume that they will be cut up in situ. Would it be possible for some of the pieces to be auctioned off for charity? I am thinking of the more identifiable bits that have numbers or similar markings. I would have thought that for speed, the quickest way would be to cut just the joining angle iron thats welded on holding them together, & lift them off loaded. A large road crane 'lashed' to the deck would do the trick, lifting capacity depending on how close to the containers the barge can be located on the sea bed and cut them up at a shore base the crucial thing will be the limited amount of time working on the shore line available between neap tides and the onset of winter storms & heavy swells plus of course the high cost of such marine plant (jacking barges etc) Possibly a six week window And and if the drilling the Cap'n refered to earlier on the seawall is prescision drilling to a template, and already completed the precast concrete units will drop into place, bolts down through and with a cross between lego & meccano Voila, a structure ready to be filled with reinforced concrete ( ignoring little details like shimming level,anchoring together etc., etc.) Either Network Rail will dazzle with the speed of execution, or or it will be plan "B" Edited August 30, 2014 by Granitechops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 30, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2014 Do you really think those containers would stay in one piece if they were to be lifted full of all that rock? I reckon most of them would quickly head for whatever banana shape their contents allowed as they buckled under the load! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted August 30, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 30, 2014 Do you really think those containers would stay in one piece if they were to be lifted full of all that rock? I reckon most of them would quickly head for whatever banana shape their contents allowed as they buckled under the load! They might be lifted using a spreader beam, possibly jack them up and put a raft underneath, not sure how viable it might be. A lot of mights but most of it depends on the structural integrity of the containers. The big plus is no contamination from the contents of the containers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Do you really think those containers would stay in one piece if they were to be lifted full of all that rock? I reckon most of them would quickly head for whatever banana shape their contents allowed as they buckled under the load! It all depends on how you sling your hook 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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