TonyK
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« Reply #45 on: October 31, 2014, 17:44:45 » |
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Once complete will FTN be changing his username to 'Four Tracked Then'? Seriously though, this is good news. Filton bank is a very crowded portion of track and this is long overdue. Also looking forward to extra platform at Bristol Parkway
I already changed it once, from the campaigning motto Four Track Now! to the much more triumphalist Four Track, Now! I'm off down the Knights Templar shortly to meet a few friends, so it may be Four Pints Now! ere the night is out. Edit: As a parrot.Still walked home quicker than the bus. |
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« Reply #46 on: November 14, 2014, 14:16:42 » |
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Did anyone go along to the Easton Community Centre meeting on Mon 10th November 3.30 - 6pm with Network Rail ?.
If so, did you find anything out ?.
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« Reply #47 on: November 15, 2014, 17:04:08 » |
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Oh, the irony! You wait for Four Years, Now!, and they choose a night I am working on my tan in Tenerife. (Actually, on the day itself I was on La Gomera). There will be another in January, NR» told me in reply to my anguished Tweet, date TBA.
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« Reply #48 on: December 13, 2014, 20:38:16 » |
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Not yet seen any sign that the December "to be confirmed" start date for vegetation clearance on Filton Bank has commenced.  |
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« Reply #49 on: December 14, 2014, 11:06:18 » |
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Moi non plus. But it it still December...
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« Reply #50 on: December 14, 2014, 22:15:47 » |
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Moi non plus. But it it still December...
As may be, but it will need to be completed before the birds start nesting. Mid-March? I wonder where the work will start. Possibly the thickest vegetation is around Ashley Down, which may be as good a place as any to wield the secateurs first. |
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« Reply #51 on: December 14, 2014, 22:34:59 » |
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Well, if they're going to use secateurs it'll take them until March just to get as far as Narroways Junction. One hopes that a few chainsaws and maybe a rail mounted equivalent of that contraption farmers use on hedgerows will be employed.
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« Reply #52 on: December 15, 2014, 10:59:50 » |
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Moi non plus. But it it still December...
As may be, but it will need to be completed before the birds start nesting. Mid-March? I wonder where the work will start. Possibly the thickest vegetation is around Ashley Down, which may be as good a place as any to wield the secateurs first. Hmm; for 'thick vegetation' you could read 'a beautiful green oasis'. These works are really not going to improve the Boiling Wells Project, not even a tiny bit. Very sad; we've been to a couple of excellent kids' parties there. Omelettes and eggs, I suppose. |
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« Reply #53 on: December 16, 2014, 21:45:16 » |
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Don't worry, Red Squirrel, there will still be plenty of city farm to go around. Apropos which I caught the train from SRD to BRI» today, and saw this:  where the southern bit of Eastside Roots used to be. There is an identical patch of concrete surrounded by railings between Dr Days Junction and Temple Meads, clearly of recent construction. Anyone able to explain? |
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« Reply #54 on: December 16, 2014, 22:20:53 » |
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Looks like a site for a relocatable equipment building (REB) - a large signalling equipment cabinet. I assume it is the start of the Bristol Resignalling scheme.
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« Reply #55 on: December 16, 2014, 22:56:49 » |
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Looks like a site for a relocatable equipment building (REB) - a large signalling equipment cabinet. I assume it is the start of the Bristol Resignalling scheme.
Way-hay! Signs of modernisation at last! Having solved one mystery, I pose another question: why is this set of points / bit of rail on the disused platform at SRD?  |
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« Reply #56 on: December 16, 2014, 23:02:42 » |
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It's been there for a few months...just off the track line on the line of the far platform which is apparently not being reinstated. My guess is that it's a foundation for the electrificaction to Wales (sub station or similar).
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« Reply #57 on: December 17, 2014, 21:54:50 » |
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I went to Gloucester via Cheltenham today, and saw more of these. One was near Charfield, I didn't recognise the locations of the others. Things are moving.
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« Reply #58 on: December 17, 2014, 22:09:24 » |
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Way-hay! Signs of modernisation at last! Having solved one mystery, I pose another question: why is this set of points / bit of rail on the disused platform at SRD?
I think it is supposed to stop trespassers walking along the line. |
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« Reply #59 on: December 17, 2014, 22:44:22 » |
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Surely the palisade fencing and 'egg-tray' rubber anti-trespass panel is there to prevent trespass onto the line/disused section of platform.
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