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« Reply #315 on: June 16, 2011, 22:13:34 »

...and some updated pictures taken yesterday:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=79677666&postcount=117

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The old telephone exchange flattened also the single story buildings that I once had a desk in flattened ............ oh well progress
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« Reply #316 on: June 16, 2011, 22:19:34 »

Wonder where that skylight's from, sitting to the left of the pile of rubble in the penultimate photo? 

Wonder if someone's claimed it for re-use somewhere...

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« Reply #317 on: June 27, 2011, 19:16:49 »

I went through Reading on Friday.  The old panel box has now gone. 

The new building on Napier Road (Kings Meadow) neaar Tescos has a Network Rail logo on it.  Is this a permenant replaceemnt for the temporary Reading Delivery unit building which is still standing lonely to the west of the Caversham Road bridge. 
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« Reply #318 on: June 27, 2011, 19:21:10 »

I'm sure someone will be along presently to answer that query, ellen.

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« Reply #319 on: July 14, 2011, 23:01:29 »

More photographs of the work have been posted on

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=501601&page=6
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« Reply #320 on: July 19, 2011, 15:31:41 »

Thanks for the link to those updated pictures, ellendune.

In addition, the crossings for the link to the reinstated eastern underpass line have now started to be installed on the Down and Up Southern lines, along with some additional/revised signalling, clipped out of use until commisioning this December.

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« Reply #321 on: July 20, 2011, 20:11:20 »

Yes, there is a lot of activity there at the moment. It is now becoming clearer where the widened ramp up to the Southern platforms will start, with a new retaining wall now built just behind the new signal equipment box at the bottom of the ramp and a lot more aggregate being added along its length. It looks to me as if a single track's width is being added at the lower end of the ramp, widening to two tracks width at a new piled concrete retaining wall structure that has been built at around the point where the ramp levels off.

It looks like the concrete base for the new bridge  is now, complete, and retaining walls to link the bridge to the start of the existing retaining wall the other side of platform 2b have been completed. Space between the existing platform 4b tracks and the retaining wall has been cleared as if in preparation for having ballast added for the third track. I'm curious to know how the platform will be added to the old retaining wall- will this be raised and a platform added to the top, overhanging the existing wall? Also, a huge pile of large white blocks has been unloaded at the site, anyone know what they are for?
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« Reply #322 on: July 20, 2011, 21:25:32 »

Also, a huge pile of large white blocks has been unloaded at the site, anyone know what they are for?
Polystyrene used as fill between shuttering when concrete is case when remove leaves a void is my guess
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« Reply #323 on: July 20, 2011, 23:07:29 »

I had a look from the footbridge a few weeks ago and tried to estimate the overall width required.  It would be highly unusual for the back of the new platform to overhang the Vastern Rd bridge's parapet, and it has to be 2.5 metres deep (although that could be given a concession at the far end).  My gut feeling is that the concrete formwork you can see in the third of the latest photos is the alignment of the back of the platform structure, and therefore there will be a space of about a metre between it and the existing concrete wall.  On the station side of the bridge adjacent to that formwork there is a massive concrete block with no apparent purpose (yet!) - I'd be interested to know what that is all about, it doesn't seem to have an equivalent on the other side of the bridge.   Huh 

I suppose once the new platform structure starts appearing everything will suddenly become clearer;  however I also suspect that the track into the new platform won't be laid until Christmas.  My reasoning here is that the track alongside the existing island will have to be removed before the new can be laid. I know from the NR» (Network Rail - home page) Q&A session a couple of months back that the project includes straightening the existing platforms so that they will be parallel with the new one, ie the existing curvature (away from the main lines) near the buffer stops gets removed.

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« Reply #324 on: July 21, 2011, 09:00:24 »

Also, a huge pile of large white blocks has been unloaded at the site, anyone know what they are for?
Polystyrene used as fill between shuttering when concrete is case when remove leaves a void is my guess

They do indeed look like these polystyrene blocks used in construction:
http://www.sundolitt.co.uk/default.asp?menu=8683

Looks like they are going to use them to build up the gap that still remains between the newly cast concrete bridge abutment and the start of the existing retaining wall next to platform 4b. However, there is a large pile of them, so maybe they are also going to use them to build the new platform as well?
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« Reply #325 on: July 21, 2011, 20:59:22 »

Using polystyerene would reduce any increase in load on the existing retaining wall.
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« Reply #326 on: July 21, 2011, 23:36:44 »

They do indeed look like these polystyrene blocks used in construction:
http://www.sundolitt.co.uk/default.asp?menu=8683
Polystyrene you could park a car on, there's something I'd never imagined.
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« Reply #327 on: July 25, 2011, 17:36:47 »

I took a couple of photos with the phone this lunchtime, the 'new' concrete retaining wall is basically in line with the nearest parts of the existing wall alongside Apex (Advanced Purchase Excursion (fare)) Plaza.  What I suggested earlier about it being nearer than the wall must have been an illusion as seen from the platform. The big lump of concrete I noted is consistent with the parapet height as well...

Uploaded the pics as attachments hereunder so not brilliant quality.

Interestingly, one of the Nuttall workmen told me that their contracted work is planned to be handed over to Network Rail this weekend, with the platform works contractor starting immediately afterwards.

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« Reply #328 on: July 29, 2011, 00:46:43 »

Here's a telephoto shot (light fading) showing the connections now installed on the Southern Lines east of Reading station.  The short length of new single track will dive under the GWML (Great Western Main Line) and emerge up the embankment on the north side of the formation reinstating a link removed (I think) in the 60's.

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« Reply #329 on: August 03, 2011, 20:25:00 »

The line of the platform is now apparent over Vastern Rd bridge, there's a concrete foundation strip appeared, by eye I'd say it's possibly a couple of metres from, and parallel to, the bridge parapet.

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