13th and 14th, 2 lanes closed overnight in both directions due to "railway bridge works"
Excellent, thank you.
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I installed the stud bolts on the M57.
Well done. Did you take any photos we could see?
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Good News
Earlestown has gone from zero to hero in a week.
I went today (Weds) and:
1. looked where no masts existed on Sunday and found a mast and 2 portals up, bedanglied and
carrying a wire! A wire now runs from two masts short of Earlestown South Junction almost to Sankey Junction. This means all masts must be up.
2. I looked carefully at the section between the eastern ends of the Chat Moss platforms and the 1974 wiring and found significant progress. The new mast nearest the eastern end of Platform 2 is now bearing the load of 1974 wires eastwards and an arm on the new portal a short distance east of the mast just described bears two 1974 wires. It appears that a similar process of transfer to that at Wavertree is taking place, over a much shorter distance and with less complexity because there's no equivalent of Bootle Branch Junction to consider. As with Wavertree, I now expect some old masts eventually to be demolished.
3. There is more metalwork attached to the masts erected late last week and the third mast on Platform 1 (near the western end, at the back of the Booking Office) has been erected and bedangled.
Our cup runneth over because another wire has gone up from just east of Huyton Junction past Huyton Quarry to just short of Whiston station., making four over the Chat Moss M57 bridge.
The portals east of Roby station are starting to acquire metal decorations, it must be Christmas.
Finally, Roby's Platform 1 lift was being tested whilst I was there, it should be open "by the end of the week". A customarily affable Orange Platoon were doing what their spokesman described as 'finishing jobs."
Finally finally, Carr Mill Viaduct Pier 1's thundering great lump of concrete looks the business, but Pier 4 doesn't look to have been poured yet.
Finally, finally, finally, the eighth and final concrete block mast base is in position on Pier (Column) 10N on Sankey Viaduct. There is evidence of subsequent work on several of the 8 bases, but it's hard to interpret.
Photos later.
Yippee plus!
