Four track for Filton Bank - ongoing discussion

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[ellendune]

Surely the palisade fencing and 'egg-tray' rubber anti-trespass panel is there to prevent trespass onto the line/disused section of platform.

I think that was what I was trying to say - you put it so much more clearly

[Red Squirrel]

Looks like a site for a relocatable equipment building (REB) - a large signalling equipment cabinet.  I assume it is the start of the Bristol Resignalling scheme.   

Way-hay! Signs of modernisation at last! Having solved one mystery, I pose another question: why is this set of points / bit of rail on the disused platform at SRD?

I think maybe johnneyw and ellendune may have mistaken what FT, N! was referring to - towards the top of the picture, to the right of the patch of glare and embedded in the platform, is what appears to be a set of points .

Don't worry, Red Squirrel, there will still be plenty of city farm to go around.

The Boiling Wells Project is to the east of the railway embankment, whereas the City Farm is to the west. At the moment there are tallish trees on the east-facing slope of the embankment, which gives the Boiling Wells valley a pleasant, rural feel. If you look at the Arup visualisation, at about 1' 34s, you'll see 'Ashley Hill Embankment South (Down) - 205m Contiguous Pile Wall and Regrade'. I don't think it's going to be very pretty when they finish! But as I say; eggs and omelettes.

[paul7575]

At some locations ready use spare S&C^▸ (Settle and Carlisle - a local rail line, or Switch and Crossings - a railway signalling term, depending on context) components are left stored trackside, if there's a failure a load of men in a few vans can sort it out.   

Either that or it has been delivered early for an upcoming renewal somewhere in the vicinity, but not necessarily that close.  I expect delivery of such components is by flat bed lorry to a convenient point, with road-rail machines appearing some time later to deliver to the actual worksite, which may be up or down the line somewhere.

Paul

[stuving]

I think maybe johnneyw and ellendune may have mistaken what FT, N! was referring to - towards the top of the picture, to the right of the patch of glare and embedded in the platform, is what appears to be a set of points .

I don't think that's what they are. It's some other bits of ironmongery - possible leftovers from the railings?

[paul7575]

I think maybe johnneyw and ellendune may have mistaken what FT, N! was referring to - towards the top of the picture, to the right of the patch of glare and embedded in the platform, is what appears to be a set of points .

I don't think that's what they are. It's some other bits of ironmongery - possible leftovers from the railings?

They're definitely switch blades and stock rails.  If you magnify it and look at the far ends, you can see the fixed blocks that separate the parts of the switch that don't move with respect to one another.

But contrary to my previous post, having now magnified the image, I'd tend towards them being scrap, because there seem to be signs that there are either bits of sleepers or chairs under them as well...

Paul

[Red Squirrel]

In this view from Google Maps it looks very much like old scrap points, and a few bits of rail.

[chuffed]

A 'heads up' for the newbie moderator FT,N !

From the Network Rail website:

Vegetation clearance is due to start at the beginning of February 2015 (date to be confirmed), to progress with civils enabling and infrastructure work.

[TonyK]

A 'heads up' for the newbie moderator FT,N !

From the Network Rail website:

Vegetation clearance is due to start at the beginning of February 2015 (date to be confirmed), to progress with civils enabling and infrastructure work.

Thank you, chuffed.

I had noticed that item, but have been too busy assimilating my new role to respond. (OK, in truth, it was Mrs FT,N!'s birthday, and I took her to the Metrolopse for a few days.) I shall keep my eyes peeled for anything noteworthy, and shall try to have a camera about me.

Having missed the drop-in info session in Easton in November (Mrs FT,N! again, this time Tenerife), I contacted NR^» (Network Rail - home page) by the medium of Twitter, and was told there would be another in January. So far, no news despite my asking. I have a few questions, none of them hostile.

[bobm]

(OK, in truth, it was Mrs FT,N!'s birthday, and I took her to the Metrolopse for a few days.)

(snip)

(Mrs FT,N! again, this time Tenerife)

Should we have made Mrs FT,N! moderator me thinks - she is obviously much better at decision making!   

[coachflyer]

Number of things noticed today.

At Stapleton Road there was a company boring soil test holes in the old track bed where the farm use to be.

White water filled barriers have been place up Filton bank from the access point by the Ford dealership up to Horfield Station

Also seen in a number of locations over the past few days have been a group taking pictures of the vegetation that needs clearing lineside.

[TonyK]

Should we have made Mrs FT,N! moderator me thinks - she is obviously much better at decision making!   

I wouldn't always regard her as moderate...

In any case, she has the standard view of trains, as being mystical but seeming to turn up reasonably close to time. On our recent sojourn (SWT^▸ (South West Trains) to Waterloo up, FGW^▸ (First Great Western) from PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) down), there were many times when she wondered how I knew so much detail about what was going on. All garnered from FGW Coffee Shop over the years!

I would have made the November drop-in but for my family. No sooner had I put the phone down from booking our apartment in Tenerife for the end of November / beginning of December than my youngest daughter rang to inform us she was expecting her second child at the end of November / beginning of December. Thankfully, I hadn't got around to booking flights, and the people in Tenerife couldn't have been more helpful in rearranging my week in the sun.

And on 30 November, I became Four Grandchildren, Now!

[JayMac]

Congratulations Gramps! 

[johnneyw]

Number of things noticed today.

At Stapleton Road there was a company boring soil test holes in the old track bed where the farm use to be.

White water filled barriers have been place up Filton bank from the access point by the Ford dealership up to Horfield Station

Also seen in a number of locations over the past few days have been a group taking pictures of the vegetation that needs clearing lineside.

Some sign of movement at last...and the electrification is getting closer day by day.




Edit note: Quote marks fixed, for clarity. CfN.

[johnneyw]

Congratulations Gramps! 

and congrats from me too!

[johnneyw]

I notice the Network Rail GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) Electrification page regarding the Bristol area is PR^▸ (Public Relations) managing a delay in the Filton Bank vegetation clearing by repeatedly postponing the start dates "to be confirmed" by small increments until they can announce no more work until after the nesting season.