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« Reply #855 on: October 08, 2012, 09:54:54 »

Web cam 01/1 showing some of the first visible platform edge copings and tactile strips to be installed, along the P13 face - note the blue temporary fencing, I assume because the earlier safety fence stanchions bolted to the blockwork will have been removed.

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« Reply #856 on: October 08, 2012, 16:55:47 »

More and more overhead power cable supports are appearing in the new depot as well.
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« Reply #857 on: October 08, 2012, 20:48:35 »

There appears to be work going on south of the main line to mark out, board-off and clear a strip of land from the current depot to the other side of Cow lane. I assume this to be preparatory work for the main flyover...?
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« Reply #858 on: October 08, 2012, 23:02:09 »

There appears to be work going on south of the main line to mark out, board-off and clear a strip of land from the current depot to the other side of Cow lane. I assume this to be preparatory work for the main flyover...?

Yup.
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« Reply #859 on: October 09, 2012, 16:33:35 »

Also not on webcam - all of the canopies east of the existing footbridge have been removed.
One was feeling a little exposed this morning on platform 8
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« Reply #860 on: October 09, 2012, 19:29:37 »

The tower crane on the south side has also gone today. 
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« Reply #861 on: October 10, 2012, 09:13:39 »

Also not on webcam - all of the canopies east of the existing footbridge have been removed

And there are signs at the end of platform 1/2 stating that the canopies there will be removed over the next month and refreshed over the next 12 months.
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« Reply #862 on: October 15, 2012, 08:07:19 »

Getting of the train on Platform 2 this morning I noticed that lights have now been placed on the temporary scaffolding. So I am expecting that the canopy removal on Platforms 1 & 2 is going to happen very soon.

Also the new signal gantry at the end of the new platforms on the London side of the existing passenger bridge does not look as though it is wide enough to cover what will become Platform 15. Is the gantry going to be extended at a later date or is the signal for this platform be somewhere else?
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« Reply #863 on: October 15, 2012, 08:32:08 »

This morning I also noticed that roofing had been added to the stairs/escalators ramps down onto p8 etc. didn't have time to see if they had been added to p10 and associated platforms
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« Reply #864 on: October 15, 2012, 09:34:46 »

Also the new signal gantry at the end of the new platforms on the London side of the existing passenger bridge does not look as though it is wide enough to cover what will become Platform 15. Is the gantry going to be extended at a later date or is the signal for this platform be somewhere else?

Welcome to the forum.  If you look at the maps on page 55 of this thread, it looks as if the platform starting signals for Platforms 14 and 15 are not going to be fitted to the gantry, along with a couple of others in that vicinity.
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« Reply #865 on: October 15, 2012, 17:12:35 »


Welcome to the forum.  If you look at the maps on page 55 of this thread, it looks as if the platform starting signals for Platforms 14 and 15 are not going to be fitted to the gantry, along with a couple of others in that vicinity.

Conventionally, the P15 up starting signal should be somewhere to the left of the tracks as seen by the driver, so 'over the wall' as it were.  That might be part of the reason why the gantry isn't being used, at least for P15.
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« Reply #866 on: October 17, 2012, 09:24:20 »

Looks like there is track being installed in the eastern fly-under. Only had a fleeting glimpse as I went by, will look more closely on my way back this evening.
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« Reply #867 on: October 17, 2012, 09:27:40 »

"track being installed in the eastern fly-under" Does this bring the propect of direct trains from Oxfordshire to Gatwick any closer?
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« Reply #868 on: October 17, 2012, 09:32:47 »

"track being installed in the eastern fly-under" Does this bring the propect of direct trains from Oxfordshire to Gatwick any closer?

Well, once finished it will provide a second, less conflicting, route from the main Reading station to the Southern lines.  So in that respect I suppose it does.  Due to be commissioned next Easter along with the new platforms.
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« Reply #869 on: October 17, 2012, 13:10:42 »

Looks like there is track being installed in the eastern fly-under. Only had a fleeting glimpse as I went by, will look more closely on my way back this evening.
There is also a retaining structure being built on the ramp up on the north side, presumably as part of the transition from heavy plant access to track.
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