Granitechops Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 (edited) Maybe because low tide isn't low enough with neap tides. Spring tides = higher highs and lower lows? Only guessing. Yes spring tides may be higher at high tide, making it appear worse BUT they are a lot lower at low tide, giving a bigger window of activity before the tide rises to cut off access across the beach for the dumpers & diggers in this situation in Dawlish the work site is so low that no access is possible when the neap low tide is only as low as at 2 mtr on sunday rising to 2.2 mtr on tuesday before falling back to 1.4 mtr next sat after that the low tide height falls to .8 to 1.8 mttr to the 31st Dec giving a much longer work period PLUS any swell increases the height of the low tide reducing access time Edited December 13, 2014 by Granitechops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Plumtree Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Barge in new position, crane in use No more concreting to be done till next sat due to neap tides not allowing access along the beach 100_5330 (crop).JPG Please excuse my ignorance, but how did the crane move itself? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Please excuse my ignorance, but how did the crane move itself? I was told by the people in the Redrock Cafe that 2 tugs moved it about 10 am this morning they apparently live down near there 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 (edited) Sat 13 Dec 9.45 pm some work still goes on from NWR Webcam Edited December 13, 2014 by Granitechops 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 13, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2014 The Jack Up Barge is moved by lowering itself into the water at high tide, and then moved into it's new position by tugs. The second Jack Up Barge has now been confirmed and should be en-route soon. Don't know what the pre-cast 'L' sections were doing in Dawlish station car park - may have been mis-delivered, as the plan is to deliver them by sea from Teignmouth Docks. The crane was probably moved in connection with work being done on one of the other three sections of the lower walkway, so I suspect more of the containers will be removed soon. We are getting ever closer to the start of craning in the 'L' sections. These will be treated in units of 5 at a time, and most of the void behind them will be completely filled with concrete, reinforced with steel sections. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Don't know what the pre-cast 'L' sections were doing in Dawlish station car park - may have been mis-delivered, as the plan is to deliver them by sea from Teignmouth Docks. wouldnt be the first time, seen artics having to reverse out into main traffic, from Dawlish town Station car park & be redirected to Dawlish Warren compound more than once I think some drivers dont read their documents properly (said he as an ex lorry driver) I remember hearing tell of a driver arriving in St ives after going through Penzance and finding he should have been in St Ives Cambridgeshire dont know what he told his boss!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted December 13, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 13, 2014 Reminds of the time i was in Bedford Square Tavistock and the driver asked where Tavistock junction was, he wasn't best pleased that he would have to go all the way back to Plymouth to find it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 14, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 14, 2014 And they managed to do that without satnavs? Reminds me of the coachload of tourists meant to go to Stratford-upon-Avon who ended up in Stratford in East London. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 (edited) And they managed to do that without satnavs? Reminds me of the coachload of tourists meant to go to Stratford-upon-Avon who ended up in Stratford in East London. The last time I was on the Central Line there was a party of Americans heading to Stratford. They think the UnderGround covers the whole country... They obviously weren’t Shakespeare Freaks it was “Somewhere to go”. Best, Pete. Edited December 14, 2014 by trisonic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Sun noon 14 th Dec. even though no concrete may be brought in over the beach for now work goes on big gap on low walkway where the containers were not long been lifted by the look of it, it has been dropped onto the barge deck you can just see the chains diagonally behind the two portaloos in this close up you can see the less than elegant first repairs to the washout (lower) well it was emergency & it was Stormy at the time!! Also in that last pic you can see the steel reinforcing sticking up out of the new concrete foundation pad along the back wall ( left hand end nearest camera) you can also see the step down to where the container has just been lifted where there is no new foundation yet that will probably be on the agenda for this week putting up the shuttering for that section to be infilled when the tides are right next weekend looks like just 5 or 6 containers left on the wall the way that container has lifted without buckling suggests that they opened the end doors & unloaded it first and it had suficent structural integrity to be craned in one piece Do you remember this? 10th Feb 2014, before the second storm IIRC this is where the first concrete was poured in probably some of it spilled over the edge of the original wall( what was left of it) and set down behind the containers taken from NWR webcam http://www.networkrail.co.uk/timetables-and-travel/storm-damage/dawlish/ 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Don't know what the pre-cast 'L' sections were doing in Dawlish station car park - may have been mis-delivered, as the plan is to deliver them by sea from Teignmouth Docks. The lorry had been reversed up but there wasnt anyone with it, I only saw it briefly as I passed it on the train. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 The lorry had been reversed up but there wasnt anyone with it, I only saw it briefly as I passed it on the train. gives a toot then when you see me in my wheelchair along Dawlish or Dawlish Warren sea wall taking pictures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcriout Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Interview being filmed this morning in front of NWR cam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 you can just see the chains diagonally behind the two portaloos 100_5341 (crop 2) .jpg If one of them was painted mismatching shades of bright pink and lime green, would it be Michael Portaloo? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcriout Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 Interview being filmed this morning in front of NWR cam 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Oh look, another leak at Dawlish. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-30487872 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 16, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2014 Oh look, another leak at Dawlish. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-30487872 Oh, someone has only just noticed? Come on BBC a new report is simply highlighting long standing potential problem areas which could get worse if the climate changes in a particular way - Cowley Bridge Jcn has been flooding, to a lesser or greater extent, since Brunel was a lad and the same can definitely be said of the stretch of railway along the coast in the vicinity of Dawlish. What we saw more recently on the Somerset Levels was rather different where because of lack of management by the Environment Agency water from areas which flood most years could not get away and built up to much higher than usual levels. Excellent in my view that NR are taking a strategic and longer term look at these old problems but hardly such a 'surprise' as the BBC report seems to imply. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Shame they are still referring to the station at Dawlish as a TRAIN station, after promising last year to clean up their act. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 16, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 16, 2014 Shame they are still referring to the station at Dawlish as a TRAIN station, after promising last year to clean up their act. Stewart Shame there are still people who won't accept reality. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 16, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2014 Shame there are still people who won't accept reality. Keith Yes, I agree. It really is a railway station, and not a 'train station'... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 gives a toot then when you see me in my wheelchair along Dawlish or Dawlish Warren sea wall taking pictures. I have been keeping an eye out for you for the last few months, not seen you yet though! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Shame there are still people who won't accept reality. Keith When did we join America? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 17, 2014 Shame they are still referring to the station at Dawlish as a TRAIN station, after promising last year to clean up their act. Stewart I'm afraid that it's just tilting at windmills. We're stuck with it unfortunately. The only people who use the word 'railway' now appear to be the likes of 'us' and older folk! Whenever 'vox pop' interviews are shown one rarely ever hear the words 'railway station' anymore, not helped by the interviewer usually using it. What was the promise made about cleaning up their act? It seems that the term 'railroad station' is now little used in America. Like it or loathe it, with a constantly changing use of language, it's here to stay! ....now what really does *iss me off is 'train line'.............trains run on a railway line......but they do stop at stations!....I'll get my hat...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 The problem is they haven't been trained to say railway! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 To play devil's advocate, I can remember the phrase of train station used for many years. Perhaps not a railway saying but one thts been in use for a while I Googled train Station and Harrow on the Hill is described as a train station https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=train%20station I guess we just have to put up with things being called something slightly different to what we understand every now and then 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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