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« Reply #210 on: November 24, 2017, 20:35:42 » |
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Not exactly a 4 tracking post or an electrification one but did notice at Bristol Parkway yesterday that the new platform wall has been backfilled with what looks like spent ballast and the the old metal back wall has been removed and replaced with temporary barriers. Looks like it's soon ready for surfacing. Not sure when it's supposed to open though.
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« Reply #211 on: November 24, 2017, 20:51:10 » |
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Not exactly a 4 tracking post or an electrification one but did notice at Bristol Parkway yesterday that the new platform wall has been backfilled with what looks like spent ballast and the the old metal back wall has been removed and replaced with temporary barriers. Looks like it's soon ready for surfacing. Not sure when it's supposed to open though.
I was told 'by Christmas', 23rd or 24th December from a trusted source if not sooner. |
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« Reply #212 on: November 24, 2017, 21:04:24 » |
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Not exactly a 4 tracking post or an electrification one but did notice at Bristol Parkway yesterday that the new platform wall has been backfilled with what looks like spent ballast and the the old metal back wall has been removed and replaced with temporary barriers. Looks like it's soon ready for surfacing. Not sure when it's supposed to open though.
I was told 'by Christmas', 23rd or 24th December from a trusted source if not sooner. It looks like the services are all in and ready for connection so all that's left would be the Christmas lights. |
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« Reply #213 on: November 25, 2017, 09:31:20 » |
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Rather more on topic, does this means Parkway will beat Abbey Wood in the (imaginary, in my mind only) race to open their new platforms? I suppose Parkway has the advantage of the track actually being in-situ.
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« Reply #214 on: December 18, 2017, 17:43:13 » |
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Right, I'm puzzled. What I thought looked like it was going to be new track bed at Filton Abbey Wood is being raised into a sort of hump...?
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« Reply #215 on: December 18, 2017, 18:50:38 » |
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Right, I'm puzzled. What I thought looked like it was going to be new track bed at Filton Abbey Wood is being raised into a sort of hump...?
I was there is afternoon with kid bro looking at progress briefly. Didn't notice anything. Whereabouts was it? Could possibly be the area where the 4th platform is going. Could even be a temporary bit of shifted earth? |
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« Reply #216 on: December 18, 2017, 21:13:14 » |
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I think underneath it all, may be MARK my words, just a HOP skip and a jump away,may be the contrived ending of the work at Filton Abbey WOOD.....  |
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« Reply #217 on: December 18, 2017, 23:59:52 » |
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I think underneath it all, may be MARK my words, just a HOP skip and a jump away,may be the contrived ending of the work at Filton Abbey WOOD..... I see what you did there, chuffed (eventually)! "He sleeps with the fishplates"? |
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« Reply #218 on: December 28, 2017, 13:28:29 » |
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Not exactly a 4 tracking post or an electrification one but did notice at Bristol Parkway yesterday that the new platform wall has been backfilled with what looks like spent ballast and the the old metal back wall has been removed and replaced with temporary barriers. Looks like it's soon ready for surfacing. Not sure when it's supposed to open though.
I was told 'by Christmas', 23rd or 24th December from a trusted source if not sooner. Had a look at the local press and the Network Rail website but all seems very quiet about Parkway at the moment so I guess the new platform hasn't opened yet. That said, I wouldn't expect the lord mayor, local dignitaries and massed marching bands to accompany the opening of a platform but some blurb from NR» to announce this modest achievement might be appropriate. |
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« Reply #219 on: December 28, 2017, 15:16:21 » |
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That said, I wouldn't expect the lord mayor... to accompany the opening of a platform
Would that be the Lord Mayor of Thornbury? |
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« Reply #220 on: December 28, 2017, 15:42:52 » |
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That said, I wouldn't expect the lord mayor... to accompany the opening of a platform
Would that be the Lord Mayor of Thornbury? I was using the term rather generally but Ms Harrison would be a candidate there I'm sure. |
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« Reply #221 on: December 28, 2017, 16:51:04 » |
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That said, I wouldn't expect the lord mayor... to accompany the opening of a platform
Would that be the Lord Mayor of Thornbury? No I don't think so, with my knowledge of the local area I would think the Lord Mayor of Stoke Gifford would be the most appropriate civic dignitary to attend if invites were being issued. I'll be passing through Parkway tomorrow so I'll post a progress report but passing through Westerleigh Village yesterday I couldn't see any additions to the already installed steelwork from which I reported on the 21st December. |
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« Reply #222 on: December 28, 2017, 16:58:34 » |
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The December Operating Changes booklet all drivers have been given (19 pages of light reading!) says the following:
New Platform 1
From Sunday 31 December 2017, the new Bristol Parkway Platform 1
(on the Down Bristol Parkway Passenger Loop line) will be brought
into operational use. The platform length will be 280 metres.
An ‘S’ and IET▸ ‘S’ Platform Stop Markers will be provided 10 metres
before the Bristol end of the platform.
The 3-state Banner Repeating signal BL1513BR is situated 162 metres
on approach to the platform starting signal BL1513.
Platform starting signal BL1513 is located just beyond the far end of
Platform 1 and is located on the right hand side.
Train Dispatch
Platform 1 starting signal BL1513 is obscured, to Guards and
Dispatchers, by the stairs leading off of the platform, so two ‘off’
indicators have been provided.
All platforms have the same method of dispatch in the down direction.
Please note this is a new platform to customers and colleagues alike, so
please take additional care to avoid any PTI incidents.
Platform 3 & 4
From Sunday 31 December 2017, Bristol Parkway Platform 2, 3 & 4
extensions come in to use. The platforms will be 280m long.
The PSMs on platform 3 & 4 for Class 80x services , in the Up direction,
will be moved 30 metres towards London.
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« Reply #223 on: December 28, 2017, 19:47:44 » |
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The December Operating Changes booklet all drivers have been given (19 pages of light reading!) says the following: Many thanks ... just checking abbreviations: PTI - Passenger Train Interface ? PSM - Platform Stop Marker (?) - that one is defined earlier in the text |
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« Reply #224 on: December 28, 2017, 20:16:10 » |
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Many thanks ... just checking abbreviations:
PTI - Passenger Train Interface ?
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