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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    IMG_20170930_180539.jpg The Ainscough crane, in the Huyton Hey Road car park, lowering a pulley into position onto a gantry. Photo taken from the bus station. Apologies for the previous blank entries; having a bad PC day! So bad that it wasn't letting me delete them!
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Work being carried out east of Huyton Station and a ballast train standing at platform 2 (facing east). Photos 1, 2 and 3 taken from the railway path and 4 from Platform 2, at Huyton Station. Valid file extensions: doc docx gif jpe jpeg jpg mp3 pdf png psd txt wma xls xlsx zip...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    /home/bill/Desktop/IMG_20170930_180539.jpg /home/bill/Desktop/IMG_20170930_180601.jpg /home/bill/Desktop/IMG_20170930_174246.jpg /home/bill/Desktop/IMG_20170930_174817.jpg Some photos of work east of Huyton Station,today,Sat 30th.
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Dave; I agree. The work at Huyton appears to be complete bar the laying of the track from Platform 4 at Huyton Station to the junction and the installation of the overhead wires. The Buckingham works compound in the Huyton Hey Road car park (next to the bus station and adjacent to the track) has...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Looks like a few sleepless nights, next week!
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Work is gradually getting underway. 1) Within the closed off section of the bus station. 2) Work has started in the telephone exchange car park (the front one adjacent to the subway). Photo from the railway path. 3) Posters in the bus station suggests that section of the work will...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Local residents have received a letter re the 4th Track Works. As the crow flies I live about 150 yards away from the new compound so I'll be able to keep tabs on progress. There'll be an Open Forum at The Venue, (formerly The Huyton Suite) Civic Way, Poplar Bank,Huyton. L36 9GD. (Located near...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    This is the compound I mentioned, recently. The Huyton Hey Road car park was closed on 6 Sept and since then the area has been fenced off and the work huts placed in situ. Some of the BT car park will be taken but they also have a car park at the front of the building so the overall effect...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Sorry it's not the best of attachments. For anyone not familiar with the area the car park is immediately adjacent to the track just before Huyton Junction and the bridge over Huyton Hey Road. Next to the car park is the bus station, the Telephone Exchange and then Huyton Station itself. The...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Huyton 4th Track Signs have gone up at Huyton Hey Car Park notifying closure from Tuesday 6 Sept until May 2017 to facilitate the installation of the missing link! Apologies for the lack of a photo of the notice. I didn't have my phone on me!!
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    The Northern Hub brochure 'Improving the railway around Huyton and Roby,' Autumn 2013, gave the proposed TWAO works completion date as winter 2017
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    I'm not sure what the legal situation is regarding trees that may interfere with the railway but are not actually on railway land. Alongside the Huyton railway footpath, trees overhanging the footpath were cut back during the July blockade. The trees are on private land and the path is the...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    It's going to be very difficult to compare like for like figures and any starting point would need to be from before electrification work, and all the associated closures and bus replacements, started. Bear in mind, also, that substantial housing developments have/are taking place very close to...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    I was in Lime St at 1.50 and there was a Wigan bound 319 at platform 1
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    06.00 Liverpool-Wigan NW 319 cancelled due to 'overhead wire problems.'
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    I've always wondered how on earth they estimate/calculate free passes. I frequently use mine between Huyton-Lime Street and the only check, apart from the odd guard who bothers, is a cursory glance at the Lime Street exit. Similarly on the Merseyrail network. You can scan an exit gate with the...
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Just been along the Huyton footpath and noticed the inward bound AT cable is in place from Huyton J through to Roby All that's now left is to make good the missing plaster in the public subway wall. Maybe the patches of brickwork have been left exposed to check for damp etc?
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Re the AT cable at Huyton. Isn't that what I said?
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    Manchester - Liverpool Electrification

    Dave, I'd much prefer it if you wagered YOUR pensions lol Cheers.

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