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« Reply #1290 on: June 24, 2011, 15:58:19 » |
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I suppose removal of the wall of the disused platform at Honeybourne is for similar reasons to Axminster, ie it didn't allow adequate clearance beneath the coping slabs for current gauging standards. I'm referring to the original wall that was removed at Axminster, not the newly built wall that was put up in the wrong place that also had to be demolished...  Paul |
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« Reply #1291 on: June 27, 2011, 01:00:41 » |
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Various AWS▸ magnets, TPWS▸ grids, gravel paths and bases for signal posts are now appearing in the various locations where new signals are going to be placed for phase two.
I'm a bit surprised that if the platform is being completely rebuilt at Honeybourne, why a Charlbury-esque platform length isn't deemed enough
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« Reply #1292 on: June 27, 2011, 07:59:00 » |
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Something ti do with reversing freight for the bramch, or making passive provision for the steam trains if & when they reach Honeybourne (more likely)
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« Reply #1293 on: June 27, 2011, 10:23:42 » |
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Footbridge steps to platform 2 at Charlbury now available for use, those to platform 1 seem to be having some modifications made and are still not available for use.
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« Reply #1294 on: June 27, 2011, 18:35:42 » |
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I'm a bit surprised that if the platform is being completely rebuilt at Honeybourne, why a Charlbury-esque platform length isn't deemed enough
The old platform structure has been neglected for how many years? in that time it has had no maintenance or inspections so it is difficult to assess the condition of it and therefore budget for any remedial work before contractors are appointed to carry the construction work; so it is more often than not better to state "clear and remove old redundant structure and design and build new to the following standards" in a Workscope than have a vague if its ok make use of it. |
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« Reply #1295 on: June 28, 2011, 00:03:41 » |
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Something ti do with reversing freight for the bramch, or making passive provision for the steam trains if & when they reach Honeybourne (more likely)
Can't think for the life of me how the length of the platform would affect freight movements, and as for the passive permission of trains on the GWR▸ , I suppose that might be part of it - they run up to 7 carriage trains by the look of it. Though I think the potential money saved with having a 5-car platform at Honeybourne could be put to much better use by extending Shipton's Up Platform, rather than squandering it to make passive (or in this case, active) provision for a non-National Rail link that may eventually reach Honeybourne many years in the future. Not to mention the saving in delay minutes whilst TM‡'s have to ensure all those doors on a HST▸ are shut - so unnecessary at such a small station. I noticed today that all the redundant, or soon to be redundant lineside equipment/cabinets in the Evesham/Honeybourne areas have been marked with a green 'X'. |
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« Reply #1296 on: June 28, 2011, 08:58:10 » |
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Not quite sure where this is going. The rebuilt platform at Honeybourne is going to be the same length as the new one at Charlbury, ie able to take five 23m coaches, and I think passive provision is just that. There's not going to be a shiny new bit of platform there at the back ready for the GWSR to use in x years' time, just that room for it to happen and for a track for them to use will be allowed for.
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« Reply #1297 on: June 28, 2011, 11:07:18 » |
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Ah, right. OK. I'd missed/forgotten the post(s) about the 135m length and still thought they were intending to do the whole 152m of the original platform which has now been removed.
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« Reply #1298 on: June 28, 2011, 11:10:41 » |
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I reckon all they mean by passive provision for such and such a longer platform length is that they don't position anything permanent in the way of the future footprint, such as track, cable troughs, signal gantries etc etc. It isn't likely to mean much in terms of building work...
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« Reply #1299 on: June 29, 2011, 00:40:02 » |
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Resleepering work on the refuge siding at Moreton-in-Marsh looks to be complete - some of the old ones removed just seem to have crumbled once dug out. Some wiring work also seems to be taking place on the semaphore signals, which I take is to do with fitting of LEDs in place of the existing lamps.
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« Reply #1300 on: June 29, 2011, 01:24:08 » |
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« Reply #1301 on: June 29, 2011, 07:37:33 » |
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The "passive provision for the GWR▸ " will be limited to NR» ensuring where best they can that the potential of a platform and trackbed are not compromised, the GWR will have to build the platform face etc. In my opinion it is NR's long term interest to have heritage railways, at national network stations, even if not directly connected to the national network, as it dose have the potential to generate more passengers on national network trains Resleepering .................. have you never done that?  It's usually done by most people at the weekends!!!! ...................... You know when you roll over and have an extended lay in  |
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« Reply #1302 on: June 29, 2011, 10:42:58 » |
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The "passive provision for the GWR▸ " will be limited to NR» ensuring where best they can that the potential of a platform and trackbed are not compromised, the GWR will have to build the platform face etc. Will NR allow them to do this - or will they insist that GWR just place the contract with NR to do it? |
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« Reply #1303 on: June 29, 2011, 11:29:36 » |
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The "passive provision for the GWR▸ " will be limited to NR» ensuring where best they can that the potential of a platform and trackbed are not compromised, the GWR will have to build the platform face etc. Will NR allow them to do this - or will they insist that GWR just place the contract with NR to do it? I would think this will be subject to a formal agreement after negotiations which will take place when or if the GWR are in a position to extend from Broadway to Honeybourne to operate over NR land also I am not sure who owns the land north of Broadway I think the GWR Own some of it but not all |
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« Reply #1304 on: June 30, 2011, 01:29:42 » |
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Few more pictures now online showing some finishing touches at Charlbury station and work at Honeybourne, where the platform's new front wall is starting to take shape. Most of the old platform wall's bricks were recovered and donated to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for use at Broadway station and the water column pipework I photographed last week is also GWR▸ -bound, along with a Great Western Railway lamp hut from Ascott-under-Wychwood that has found a new home at Broadway. See the Broadway station construction team's blog here http://broadwaygwsr.blogspot.com/2011/06/piece-of-honeybourne-comes-to-broadway.html |
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