Would the crane actually be required for further use on the 27th or has it already finished its role? If the former, presumably the weather forecast for the 27th (with further wind gusts of over 40mph) would prevent its use anyway? It really has been a truly miserable week of weather in Yorkshire, Boxing Day apart.
Hasn’t even started its role by the sounds of things. The bridge needs an under bridge installing and potentially raising to allow the OHLE gantries to be installed.
Officially it's open to Kirklees residents only and you have to register your vehicle, though I'm not sure how strictly this is enforced so it may be possible to go in with an unregistered vehicle- I've never tried. Think they use ANPR though.
Postscript to this- I called at the tip this afternoon, had a look at the embankment but there wasn't really anything to see, so I didn't bother standing in the rain to take photos of nothing.
True nothing to see here, a firm moving underground pipes for the realign job, At some point they are to realign the track by what the guy calls "Dewsbury Tip",plus knocking 4 houses down. As a local I'm more inclined to think the town center is "The Tip". Mirfield is where things are happening lately, 3 day line closure and 650m of new track laying. plus the chopped a couple of metres off the platform 2, by the back to normal on Tuesday, there will have been nearly 10 engineers trains there.
Is that the row of houses in the way of the new fast lines south of Heaton Lodge Junction?
No, Fall lane, Dewsbury, the cottages at Heaton Lodge have been gone for months. sadly.
Why do the Fall Lane houses need to go?
Today!
Did they fill the gap at guide bridge before they turned the wires on and when will they test the wires with a 331?
Not under normal feeding arrangementsDoes the making live mean that the leccy for Piccadilly to Guide Bridge will be on a sort of "ring main" ie supplied from two sources, the great extension lead and whatever the original feed was ? Also , would more power be available up to Hadfield? (thinks 87 and a few coaches.....)
maybe, but this is a good way to discourage low-life from trying to steal the copper...
Been chatting to a guy called David Cox on twitter about the wires going live on the stalybridge lines and this is the reply I got off him.
Thanks! And for those of you wondering, week 44 starts on 27th January and week 49 starts on 2nd March
Could be may then before we see a EMU or 802 using the wires, depending on how the testing goes.
Didn't I read on here that no Electric trains were timetables to use the Stalybridge to Victoria wires.
Only the TPE units until December.
That's good, bet it'll be overnight testing before a press release like they did with the bolton line when the electrification works had finished.
The Railway does!29th of Jan and 4th of March respectively to many then. Not many of us start a week on a Saturday
The word "can't" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there... such a service absolutely could be introduced, and could speed up Glossop line services by taking over the stops between Piccadilly and Guide Bridge.
