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« Reply #195 on: November 23, 2010, 17:29:42 » |
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I don't know for sure, but I think that's going to be a storage compound used for materials that are going to be used in the project and also facilities for the engineering staff involved in the project.
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« Reply #196 on: November 23, 2010, 17:36:26 » |
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I don't know for sure, but I think that's going to be a storage compound used for materials that are going to be used in the project and also facilities for the engineering staff involved in the project.
Now that would make sense: some of the construction looked like it could easily have been for something as mundane as bases for Portakabins etc. |
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« Reply #197 on: November 23, 2010, 17:43:42 » |
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A kind of PS: the construction of a new embankment on the other side of Vastern Rd for the extended Waterloo platforms is well under way. And it looks like piling will start soon on the station side of the road, beyond platform 4b. Earlier someone said they thought the proposed third platform has now been dropped, anyone have any further info on this? I'm still unclear how this would save much money, given the amount of earthworks and bridge construction needed anyway.
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« Reply #198 on: November 24, 2010, 10:07:00 » |
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I know on caversham Road they have been re painting some of the decks, but that new bridge deck looks much bigger than the gap its going in!
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« Reply #199 on: November 24, 2010, 10:39:12 » |
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Better that, than being smaller than the gap it's intended to fill!   |
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« Reply #200 on: November 24, 2010, 20:14:59 » |
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Timings on journey planner have return to the same as the timetable on the FGW▸ website. Must of been a blip with the journey planner system.
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« Reply #201 on: November 25, 2010, 09:59:24 » |
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Something else I've noticed: a crane and what looks like a piling machine (for want of the correct term) near the northern side of the Vastern Rd bridge, i.e. the other side of the tracks from the Waterloo lines. Is further bridge widening planned here?
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« Reply #202 on: November 25, 2010, 10:35:38 » |
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I suspect there will have to be a piled retaining wall up to a certain height parallel to and along the line of the railway, as the available site isn't wide enough for a normal sloping embankment. Similar to the wall immediately south of the existing platform 4A/B.
I think from one of the phots linked to earlier the piling for the actual bridge abutments is done already?
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« Reply #203 on: November 25, 2010, 11:51:29 » |
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To clarify, I'm not refering to work associated with the Waterloo platform extentions and proposed third platform, for which embankment work and a new retaining wall are well progressed. What I noticed this morning was piling equipment on the northern side of the main tracks, i.e. somewhere between Vastern Rd and the start of the ramp down to the dive-under that is to be re-opened. Maybe they need a retaining wall on that side for the new track to the dive-under?
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« Reply #204 on: November 25, 2010, 12:32:41 » |
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Ah yes I see.  Maybe the gradient or curvature of the ramp down to the dive under will be different? Paul |
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« Reply #205 on: November 25, 2010, 12:55:01 » |
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Earlier someone said they thought the proposed third platform has now been dropped, anyone have any further info on this? The original 3rd platform had been dropped to save money, but 10 days ago we heard it had been reinstated into the works. As far as the station is concerned, all the original proposals are now going ahead.  |
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« Reply #206 on: November 25, 2010, 13:28:07 » |
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Earlier someone said they thought the proposed third platform has now been dropped, anyone have any further info on this? The original 3rd platform had been dropped to save money, but 10 days ago we heard it had been reinstated into the works. As far as the station is concerned, all the original proposals are now going ahead. That's goood- it seems like something that wouldn't really have saved that much money to leave out but would have been extremely expensive to add afterwards. |
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« Reply #207 on: November 25, 2010, 14:29:36 » |
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Probably exactly the sort of responsible 'what if' options that have been going on for the last 6 months to convince the new Govt. that the sums do add up.
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« Reply #208 on: November 26, 2010, 13:45:03 » |
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Something else I've noticed: a crane and what looks like a piling machine (for want of the correct term) near the northern side of the Vastern Rd bridge, i.e. the other side of the tracks from the Waterloo lines. Is further bridge widening planned here?
Had a closer look this morning. It does indeed look like piling is taking place at either end of the Vastern Rd railway bridge, on the northern side, as if in preparation for the bridge to be widened to take an additional track on that side, as well on the Waterloo lines side. Will be interesting to see if that is what is actually being done. There does also appear to be some further shoring up with steel sheets along the ramp down to the dive under. |
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« Reply #209 on: November 26, 2010, 15:52:35 » |
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According to the aerial schematic on the Network Rail site: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/6341.aspx- Vastern Road bridge will have extra tracks to both the North and the South so I'd expect to see the bridge widened on both sides.
- The Dive-Under to the east will eventually have new tracks running through it so that trains can access the line to Wokingham line from the Northern platforms.
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