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« Reply #225 on: December 28, 2017, 20:19:35 »

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

How about Platform Train Interface?
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« Reply #226 on: December 31, 2017, 21:39:53 »

Called in at Parkway, new platform looks definitely up and running. Happy to celebrate little gains as well as big ones. HNY Coffee Shoppers!
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« Reply #227 on: January 01, 2018, 12:22:11 »

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 #228 on: February 22, 2018, 21:29:36 »

It's been a while, so I took a look down Stapleton Road to see what's occurring.



What looks like capped rebar protrudes above the mound of rubble. Was that put there to allow access for men and machines while reinforced concrete pillars were created?



P3 (as was) is fenced off from P2 (as is) while work progresses.



A look behind one of those mounds reveals a chevron-shaped trench, presumably to reveal what utilities lie buried within?



A look in the direction of Temple Meads shows where the new steel will eventually be laid, to form Four Track, Now!
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« Reply #229 on: February 22, 2018, 22:18:01 »

My regular jaunts on the Severn Riviera Express from Redland have shown progress but I still wonder when I will see the rails in place.
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« Reply #230 on: February 22, 2018, 23:37:12 »

My regular jaunts on the Severn Riviera Express from Redland have shown progress but I still wonder when I will see the rails in place.

I seem to recall November 2018 being mentioned.
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« Reply #231 on: February 23, 2018, 09:01:59 »


What looks like capped rebar protrudes above the mound of rubble. Was that put there to allow access for men and machines while reinforced concrete pillars were created?


For info, there's a GA (Greater Anglia) you can look at on the  Bristol City Council Planning Portal, ref 15/00655/RA . Note the disclaimer: subject to further design...

...ooh, I just noticed there's also a little detail on one of the bridge piers: "corble(sic) for future OLE (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") mast". I'm sure they'll value-engineer that away.
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« Reply #232 on: February 23, 2018, 13:22:29 »

...ooh, I just noticed there's also a little detail on one of the bridge piers: "corble(sic) for future OLE (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") mast". I'm sure they'll value-engineer that away.

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A mixture of bodily fluids that form after a long duration session of sexual activity.

Too right it's sick, although not necessarily out of context. A corbel may be of more use.
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« Reply #233 on: February 23, 2018, 14:35:03 »

The things you learn on here !!! Is that 'sick' in the way the youngsters use the word, or 'sick' as we oldies always understood it to mean ?? Huh Roll Eyes
In a similar vein ..our local Wetherspoons is called the Posset Cup (pronounced Pozzit). Posset is the old name for Portishead. However to the young, a 'Pozzit' is what baby regurgitates after being fed ! I am sure Wetherspoons didnt take that into consideration !!
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« Reply #234 on: February 23, 2018, 17:08:15 »

Lemon Posset ?.
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« Reply #235 on: March 04, 2018, 19:51:02 »

I noticed today that both tracks now go through the eastern arch of the Bonnington Walk overbridge. There's also a lot of work going on at Filton Abbey Wood, presumably for the fourth platform, and new footbridges in place in Lockleaze and Narroways.
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« Reply #236 on: March 06, 2018, 23:33:15 »

Sorry, Bmblbzzz, that isn't new work. I took this picture in March 2017:



I took this picture today:



A lot has happened in the 12 month gap, but the railway ran through the eastern arches back then, and I think since it was reduced to two tracks in 1984. (IIRC (if I recall/remember/read correctly)).

Whilst I was in the area, I swung by Abbey Wood:



A retaining wall is well on the way, and it looks as if shuttering for work on the new platform is being prepared. More when I get a moment.
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« Reply #237 on: March 07, 2018, 10:59:20 »

I thought it used to run one track through each arch, but all I'm saying is:  Embarrassed Embarrassed Embarrassed
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« Reply #238 on: March 07, 2018, 12:30:48 »

Google's time machine suggests that it's been like this since at least 2012...

https://goo.gl/maps/inLRCtnHeZy
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« Reply #239 on: March 07, 2018, 12:59:20 »

Google's time machine suggests that it's been like this since at least 2012...

https://goo.gl/maps/inLRCtnHeZy

Google's got another time machine that shows it like that in 1992... well, actually it's a 1999 view (slip of the brain, that).
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