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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Re Garforth. Does the road bridge need any work?
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    Wigan-Bolton electrification. Construction updates only please

    Installed at numerous locations throughout the Leeds North West project in the early 90's
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    Would Slab Track be an option? That would tighten up on the clearances. Also, is reduced height rail still available?
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    Landslips

    With the amount of slips being mentioned on here, I wondered just how many are there? So Where are they? How big? Are they being worked on and how? Cause? Are trains stopped or diverted? I don't want any detail of timetable affects other than those in my last point above.
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    Level crossing problem

    Kildwick and Cononley are the 2 nearest LCs both on the Aire Valley route A few miles South of Skipton. No LC on the Skipton - Settle line and a hand operated gate on the Rylstone line is the only other LC that I know of.
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Oxford-Bletchley construction progress

    And how many 60ft's came by road or other rail wagons? Not including pointwork.
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    What is this track object and associated markings?

    Have sprayed up this type of markings many times. Not just for greasers, but normally cabling and ducting and switches. Greasers can be removed by arrangement and is preferrable as it means the tamper does not leave a large area untamped with the potential for track faults.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    How long will it take to prepare the site for the actual work? Thinking of service diversions, locating existing anchor points. any crane pads to be provided. Then there will be the time taken to do the actual work. Finally the reinstatement and restoration of the site. For an example of how...
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    A363 Bridge replacement Bradford-on-Avon

    Is all the scrap and rubbish going to be cleared up before handover?
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Oxford-Bletchley construction progress

    Does anybody have the eventual layout and any connections for the Quainton Rd Heritage site?
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    So A highly successful career history of working in major projects.
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    Baildon landslip

    Heard something about a landslip today on the Shipley - Ilkley line near Baildon. Wasn't there a couple of slips in that area about 8 years or so back?
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    Cost of building a new railway bridge over an A road?

    Bridges over Roads will probably be costlier due to the increased length of the ramps either side. Roads can better cope with the length of ramp required.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    Thanks for that, never heard of it before and I have worked on Electrification schemes in the past. Things change.
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    Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates

    One other consideration. Is the crane and transport booked too be anywhere else in the next few day? Penalty clauses in contracts may apply.
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    Another landslip on the SWML (01/12/23)

    I assume by Plates you mean Piles?
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    Another landslip on the SWML (01/12/23)

    Side pressure could easily distort the track. Take a look at what happened at Hatfield Colliery a few years back, between Doncaster and Scunthorpe.
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    Bridlington rationalisation and re-signalling

    A large amount of the line between Hull and Seamer has been renewed with new rails and sleepers. North of Brid From the LC at Quay crossing, through Sewerby, was resleepered 1 in 4. From Sewerby through SPEETON to Hunmanby was full renewal. Filey to Gristhorpe full renewal. Seamer South to...
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    A363 Bridge replacement Bradford-on-Avon

    Services will probably be laid at the standard depths and offsets as specified in the highway regulations.

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