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« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2013, 12:33:42 » |
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A little earlier that I thought, but Tilehurst's new footbridge is now open (with some snagging works to complete), and the demolition of the old footbridge has now started.
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« Reply #16 on: December 03, 2013, 13:09:05 » |
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I think it opened on Thursday or Friday last week.
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« Reply #17 on: December 03, 2013, 17:58:03 » |
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and the demolition of the old footbridge has now started.
We try to avoid the word demolition ......... They are deconstructed
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2013, 12:02:33 » |
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They are deconstructed
After a thorough check for bats, newts and fairies I hope?
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« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2013, 18:47:42 » |
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They are deconstructed
After a thorough check for bats, newts and fairies I hope? Yep and 'elf n safety checks on the paperwork to make sure there are no sharp edges ................ to get paper cuts
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2014, 21:47:22 » |
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For 14 months now the customers of Tilehurst station have had to out up with the mess and disruption caused by the creation of a new Footbridge, and the removal of the old one. All part of the Western Electrification work. The already overcrowded car park has has more than 20 spaces removed to accommodate contractors portacabins and equipment. This means on most mornings if your not in the car park by 8am - forget it. But today I learnt (from a FGWer) that the newly commissioned footbridge (open for about 2 months) is in fact 2' 4" too low !!! For the time being the contractors (who are only responsible for the erection) have left the site while a plan is formed to resolve. There are customer information screens inoperative and wires running visible all over the place held in place by temporary plastic ties. A fairly decent station turned into a builders yard. Such a shame. And clearly more disruption to come.
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2014, 22:13:33 » |
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In a very belated (for which I must apologise) response to a helpful suggestion from member 'paul7755', this topic has now been moved and merged here, in the interests of clarity and continuity. Sorry, Paul. CfN
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« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2014, 23:48:38 » |
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Access improvement works begin at Goring and Streatley station
Work has begun at Goring and Streatley station that will culminate in the construction of a permanent new footbridge with passenger lifts at all three platforms plus an accessible (disabled) toilet and various other improvements designed to help mobility impaired passengers. The target date for completion of the main works is June 2015, following which (according to First Great Western) the line between Tilehurst and Didcot will be ^energised^ for the testing and the training purposes. Evidently, this will be the first section of the Great Western electrified network to go live. Contractors have already set up a construction compound in the station car park: this will reduce the number of parking spaces available until works are completed. However, one of the options still being considered by First Great Western is an extension of the car park into the old coal yard after electrification. The first stage of the works, well under way, is clearing shrubs and undergrowth from platform 1, the west side of the line. This is to make way for realignment of the footpath along the platform between Station Road and Holmlea Road. It will enable the platform to be re-surfaced and its level raised so that six coach trains can stop at platform 1 safely when the relief lines are out of use ^frequently^ between December this year and April 2015. FGW▸ says there will be no interruption of train services. Next, a temporary footbridge will be erected opposite Station Road and Reading Road, although access on the eastern side will continue to be via the booking office entrance. Stairs on the western side will be immediately facing Station Road. The temporary bridge is due to be open from January 2015. The existing footbridge is due to be demolished in February; the new, permanent footbridge installed by the end of April and the temporary bridge removed by the end of June. The permanent footbridge will be near the Reading end of the platforms, with the bridge deck between platforms 1 and 2 skewed towards Station Road. To make space for the staircase on the island platform the disused building at the Reading end will be demolished. Also, in place of the existing staircase on platform 4 (the booking office side) the platform canopy will be restored to match the existing style. With passenger lifts now certain to be installed, the main obstacle to disabled access to trains at Goring and Streatley is the narrow and overgrown pavement alongside the railway line in Wallingford Road. This path was upgraded and new crash barriers installed at the High Street end in 2006. A similar upgrade was carried out opposite Reading Road in 2012 but the 60m stretch in between has remained more or less as it was when the path was declared a public highway by the GWR▸ nearly 90 years ago. The barrier and fence are actually supported on sections of railway track salvaged from Brunel^s broad gauge line, lifted in 1892! The Mobility Issues Group for Goring and Streatley (Miggs) is leading a community partnership scheme to plan an upgrade of the remaining pavement and secure funding for it.
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« Reply #23 on: October 25, 2014, 00:20:36 » |
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Is it possible john_boler to provide a source for that information you've posted?
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« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2014, 16:35:33 » |
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Looks like a paraphrased version of the full page article in the latest Goring Gap News. I was meaning to ask them if I could republish it here, but forgot all about it, so not much point now Edit: Ah ha ... I just spotted at the end of the article in the Goring Gap News.... John Boler, Chairman MIGGS
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« Reply #25 on: October 25, 2014, 17:15:44 » |
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I just spotted at the end of the article in the Goring Gap News.... John Boler, Chairman MIGGS
In which case, it's excellent to have the article on the forum, and as it's John's work and copyright. Thank you for adding it, John ... Like you, lordgoata and bignosemac, I was concerned that this article / text might have been posted here from another site in contravention of copyright, and that the original author would require credit at the very least. That happens so often that I'm afraid I tend to check unaccredited long journalist-style postings ... in this case it appears I was worrying needlessly and the posting is 110% OK
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« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2014, 17:29:28 » |
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No need for concern about copyright. Ultimate sources of information: Network Rail and FGW▸ .
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« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2019, 16:22:10 » |
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For 14 months now the customers of Tilehurst station have had to out up with the mess and disruption caused by the creation of a new Footbridge, and the removal of the old one. All part of the Western Electrification work. The already overcrowded car park has has more than 20 spaces removed to accommodate contractors portacabins and equipment. This means on most mornings if your not in the car park by 8am - forget it. But today I learnt (from a FGWer) that the newly commissioned footbridge (open for about 2 months) is in fact 2' 4" too low !!! For the time being the contractors (who are only responsible for the erection) have left the site while a plan is formed to resolve. There are customer information screens inoperative and wires running visible all over the place held in place by temporary plastic ties. A fairly decent station turned into a builders yard. Such a shame. And clearly more disruption to come. Was it really the case that the footbridge was 30 inches too low? I visit the station two or three times a week and was never aware of this calamity, nor of any resolution of it. And I frequently chatted to Ernie, the very popular, ticket man, now retired in Thailand, who expressed his own views on aspects of the station modifications. I did hear a rumour from another passenger that the bridge was a couple of centimetres too low, though I did wonder whether this discrepancy related to a couple of threaded studs in the concrete footings that were not quite in the right position. There were problems with the ducting designed to carry electric cables behind the fence on platform 4. Soon after it had been installed, it had to be replaced with ducting of larger size. Marlburian
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« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2019, 14:44:34 » |
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The main problem at Tilehurst is the absence of lifts! I remember signing a petition for them about a year or so ago wich apparently was rejected on "safety" grounds. The safety of, for example, a lone woman at a quiet time of day trying to transport a pram or pushchair plus child(ren) up and down long flights of stairs obviously doesn't count for anything....
It just makes me so mad when far less busy stations such as Taplow and Iver have lifts, but a really busy (at least in the peaks) station like Tilehurst cannot have them.
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« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2019, 14:53:05 » |
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The quickest way of getting them currently would be via an application to GWR▸ 's CCIF▸ fund....as Access for All funding is currently in abeyance
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