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Not least, from its owner.

I think they were called bearers, but I don't know if that means they were any different from ordinary sleepers except in length.

He had no connection with engineering (though his younger brother did). He was conscripted into the army for a few years during WWII. He was in hospital in South Africa when his unit got sent to Burma, so he spent the rest of the war in a non-fighting role in South Africa as a clerk to some...

My late father used "demic" occasionally and he had no connection with the railway except as a passenger.

And a "day after" video of the Water Orton viaducts. A lot of scuff marks on the road.

I think four or five bridge demolitions, raisings or rebuilds listed in the document have happened since then.

First discussed on here in 2022. Did you perhaps find it by reading my reply to your question in the Borders electrification thread?

To begin with Dunblane to Aberdeen: In 2022 Network Rail submitted a planning application (or some related type of notification) to local authorities along the route, leading to the creation of a thread on here...

Many thanks for that. I often avoid those short portrait-format videos, because some of them make my screen go black, but these two work perfectly. Edit: I've just noticed that the video I posted in #547 was filmed two weeks ago, so the third kit may be very close to finishing by now.

I assume you are taking it as already known to readers of this thread that right now a stretch of the M42 is undergoing the third of four full weekend closures this summer, for the third of four batches of placing of beams for the twin box structure near Birmingham business park, and for the...

Could Jim H24 have read my remarks and been prompted to make this new video? :D It shows that the third kit has less than 2.5 spans to go. (Edit: may be much less now - I've just noticed that this was filmed on 1st Aug.) The fourth kit is only glimpsed in the distance. I now hope someone...

People will perhaps be familiar with it in the phrase "vice versa", but it takes a bit of thinking to recognise that "vice" has basically the same meaning in that phrase.

And a similar video from a different pilot/cinematographer, Buzzin Drones: Between 5:43 and 6:08 you can see in the background that the third viaduct extension kit seems to be approaching the end of its run, though it's difficult to judge at this distance and angle. It has received...

Thanks for all that information and for correcting my misapprehension that Currie and Newton were already FSs. Presumably the original choice of those sites for TSCs, near major grid sites, was deliberately made with the possibility in mind that they could become FSs in future. Edit: although...

No, I don't think so. As part of the same programme, Eglinton Street was beefed up. This press release from Nov 2022 shows it, though it doesn't name Eglinton Street, and confusingly does name Ferguslie...