Firm appointed to the piling framework for the West of Leeds section
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Looks like movement on the Huddersfield to Leeds section
Hope that's ground movement...and not the "wrong" ground movement!
Looks like Lundy Projects (who are currently on W1) are being supplanted on the Hudds route. In fairness, I'm hardly surprised - Van Elle are the biggest (and one of the best) piling contractors in the industry. They've been on OLE projects on pretty much every route with OLE in the last few years, most notably MMLe.
If I remember correctly the major closure last summer was in July-August. Most lists of the bridges to be worked on during the closure only mentioned bridges in the Victoria to Miles Platting area. One item, possibly in RAIL magazine, claimed that work would also be done on the Stamford Street East bridge, but I don't think I have ever seen anything (e.g. press releases or posts on here) to confirm that any work actually happened there.
Edit: 15 more photos from Freel07 on SSC:
So the much needed electrification of routes out of Manchester will after all take place, despite the Spending Review, though there is some anger that the time for the work has been extended so that it won't be finished until 2016 at the earliest. More details here...
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In the last picture but one and the last but two (P1100445 and P1100449) there seems to be an STC and a TTC almost opposite each other on double-track plain line. It's not clear why both would be needed.
In those two pictures mentioned, I can see two brackets on each of the masts; on MVL/07/25, the TTC, and on MVL/07/26, the SSA.
My guess is that both are anchoring the earth wires on both sides with one bracket, and the tie wires for the mid-point anchors on the other. The preceding structure, DA TTC MVL/07/24 has no such brackets, but in image P1100450, I can see that the structure behind that (i.e. UA TTC no. MVL/07/23) has an anchor bracket on it too, almost certainly for the UA wire run's tie wire.
As such, I think MVL/07/22, behind
that, despite being 2 spans away from the structure where the mid-point is, will hold the tie wire for the DA wire run, along with MVL/07/26. I don't know why there's no portal here, but I imagine land take, signal sighting and ground conditions may all have played a part.
