Lovely not been that way for a while must mean the gas main works are coming to an end.
Your eyes deceive you it's just a normal geotextile, it's just green in colour. Helps keep the soil stable while grass establishes.
Only seen Henry Ford geotextile before. Phew, I thought it was some mad scheme to put down artificial landscaping.
Correct sir.
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No help at all, but I’ve never seen an answer, even though it’s been asked (without anyone ever answering) in numerous videos.
Could be as simple as providing level ground for the drivers to get out and walk to the signal post telephone. Does look like there's some steps made out of the platform remains and then a walkway.
One of my initial thoughts when it was first seen was some sort of power or signalling cable access chamber built under the platform, so retaining the platform surface intact would provide physical protection of the area until the future westbound slow track was relocated to the other side of the viaduct approach and presumably any remaining electrical stuff would be re-routed with it. But your suggestion is a good one.
Both these suggestions were what first crossed my mind. I'd put money on the cable chamber one though if forced.
Now that is great news. I assume a very easily photographable location?
The up line gantry signal at Thornhill L.N.W. jct I noticed is still there mounted in the stub of the platform mounted on 4 bolts been like that years that probably the reason why a bit of the platform remains?
I think that signal gantry is around 80m past the short section of platform that’s been left. (Estimated by counting sleepers on a video!)…
No the signal I mean is definately on the site of Ravensthorpe Station bolted on the remains of the up platform it protects the up line Thornhill L.N.W. jct onto the up line from the wakefield direction.
Yes. Stand outside Hoults Wine Merchants on viaduct street and look up.
The contractor will choose whatever they consider most efficient - unlike EWR there is an existing track adjacent to work from, which may favour a different technique. Also they will consider what equipment their own company has access to and staff trained to use.
The most obvious reason would be that it wasn't available (either in use elsewhere or requiring maintenance). Other reasons could be that the New Track Construction train works at about 1.5km a day of track laying, and needs the materials fed from wagons on the rail-borne end. It will also need access to/from the site (physical junctions as well as a timetable slot either end), and be able to keep clear of live lines.
It’s not really any faster if you’ve got an existing track to work from to deliver rail and sleepers using RRVs. The new track construction machine (NTC) needs the rails laid out ahead of it on the bottom ballast, they’re effective pulled off the end of the existing railway by small machines, and it then needs trains of sleepers queued up behind it.
Yeah I noticed this out the window of a London train, masts go all the way to the current limit of wiring on the Huddersfield line.
One of the things I took from this video (which you can see in the image in the original post) is just how close to the boundary fencing the sleepers were being laid. It feels as if there will be a large(ish) gap between the fast and slow lines at that point.
I suspect that the fence and the tree behind it is now inside the eventual railway boundary, the new footbridge’s abutment seems to have plenty of clearance to the newly laid sleepers - I think there’s probably still a few trees to come down. At 0:51 in the video you can compare track to abutment distance with the other side.
