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This bbc article suggests it was another surprise bit of old brick work

Today's update says that they've found more surprises underground while piling (it's been very loud here, about 100m away)

Hello - planning on going down to Cornwall with a friend in a few weeks time, trying to work out what the most cost-effective way of doing this is: I'm travelling from Oxford, he's coming from London, both heading ultimately to Looe via Liskeard and planning to take the Night Riviera. We'd then...

It's a good half hour plus walk from the cricket stadium to Edgbaston Village tram stop! You'd get most of the way to New St walking that time.

Travelling tomorrow back from Maiden Newton to Oxford, on the return half of split tickets bought a while back without thinking about the Westbury works throwing a spanner into the works - currently struggling to work out if any of the easements to go via Reading apply to me, or if I will have...

Many thanks all, very useful advice. (Have purchased the LU & DLR zones 1-3 as that covers most of my likely moves)

Trying to work out the cheapest combination of tickets for a trip this weekend - going Oxford -> Richmond on Saturday evening and then Paddington (or Marylebone) -> Oxford Sunday afternoon. I don't want a return from Richmond, as I'm staying with friends much further to the east and seeing...

Today's depressing update is that they are delaying the bridge replacement that was meant to happen in a couple of weeks because of endless delays with the work under the bridge.

Piles for the new platform 5 are now going in, and the long (very, very long) process of sorting out the utilities under the Botley Road bridge continues - video from the last weekly update email here https://network-rail.wistia.com/medias/92mzr6zxzm - there are also updates on a Facebook page...