Or Mossley because of the houses. I'm not a civil engineer so I've no idea which of the two would be more difficult. Probably depends on the details of each, the spillway looks like it would be difficult, but there might be a simple solution that's obvious to those qualified to make that call. The houses at Mossley have people in them, and they'll have questions and concerns that need to be handled sensitively. A stream, not so much!
I would build a covered way behind the houses at Mossley.
It's either that or just buy them up and then re-sell them "sold as seen."
Not familiar with the location but could they put a concrete slab over the top of the railway and extend the gardens of those houses over it to make them happy?.....or is it more awkward than that... Buy the houses knock em down?
The houses have no gardens, just small yards that back straight onto the railway. A roof over the railway would be much higher than those yards.
Would you like a blank wall immediately in front of your windows?
to be fair, plenty of houses in the country have gardens steep enough to block the view from the windows. Landscaping could mask the worst of the impact. What are the alternatives? Giant sheets of transparent plastic that will get dirty and mucky almost immediately? or some new and novel way of reducing clearances?
The houses have the equivalent of a balcony for a yard, in fact the length of which it extends is probably smaller than most balconies. It’s not a very big space by any stretch of the imagination
For context, here's a link to the street view image: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.514...4!1sHUPZKgzLXSCm0Jdft-BG9A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Taken a few years ago, but this shows the houses & railway at Mossley.
No doubt there are ways of getting round it. In fact, if Network Rail end up having to compulsory purchase those houses, I'd be fine buying one from them if it was on sale at a reasonable price... as long as the view of the railway wasn't going to be obstructed!
Me too!
They won't be. Station will be relocated and a neutral section past the houses.
For such a length as it is past those houses, wouldn't it be a PES (Permanently Earthed Section)?
It's not even a back yard... just a footpath between the door and the rail boundary, I believe!
Most of the houses round here are built into the sides of hills so have that anyway.
Agreed. It seems to have acquired a totally unjustified “difficult” status, like the Standedge tunnel and (a bit further afield) the Forth Bridge.
Might not a generous compulsory purchase actually prove the cheapest solution?
This appears to be similar to what SuperNova (with apparent inside knowledge) has said in #5774 - except that the "eastbound" line here is actually going very slightly west of north, and I assume that's the direction of movement you're referring to.
I do too, but given that the railway is dug into the bedrock in most of that area I think that it will either be core-drilling and cementing your uprights in, or chiselling a ledge in and then boring 3 or 4 holes in to resin-bond anchor bolts for the cantilevers!
Would you even need to move the platform? There's a neutral section northbound immediately after Maningtree and the class 90' and rakes of 9 Mk3 coaches would be doing not much more than walking pace when they hit it (especially if a 90 was leading dragging the usual consist + failed 90 on the back). Coped just fine. EMU's accelerate much more quickly and the falling gradient will help too of course.
