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Are they over-promising then? This from the Great North Western Railway web page:

Very professional of the Save Goring Gap mob not to black out the mobile phone number of the NR executive who sent them the letter! These people really are the limit. When is someone as shouty and entitled as them going to advocate for the status quo? If the only people shouting are idiots...

That article is the first time I've ever heard anyone accuse Network Rail of having "rushed through" the GWML electrification! :lol: (see just below the picture of the gantries) Perhaps someone should show Patrick Hallgate, it might cheer him up.

According to this community forum, there was piling on GOBLIN taking place between Christmas Day and New Year's Day. See also Camden New Journal here. One of the forum members quotes a letter stating works as follows: It's not explicitly stated there whether all that work is piling or...

In that case, VGC's website people have got mixed up. The website I linked to says: But anyway. I wondered what an SPT was, it wasn't going to be Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, tempting though it might be.

Interesting. The other noteworthy thing from that contractor's page is that they are managing to do one pile per night, which they seem to regard as a triumph of efficiency and hard work. Compare and contrast with GWEp, where one pile per night is an unmitigated disaster and the worst...

Network Rail's EGIP Twitter account retweeted a link to this page, from a subcontractor apparently working on the Falkirk High line. The interesting thing (at least for outsiders like me) is that they are digging test holes before each mast foundation goes in, and it sounds like they planned...

I guess the piling is part of the Farnworth station works, rather than within the scope of the (presumably as yet unsigned) Carillion contract?

Can someone clarify for us lay people? Is it that the track on which the Class 66 running is a Crossrail asset, and the concrete is being poured around it? Or is that track only temporary? In Winchburgh tunnel earlier this year, I believe the slab got done first, with the track being laid...

Good god. If this consultation leads to the masts being torn down it will be the icing on the cake for the problems this project has run into. I can only hope and pray that the consultation leads where it should, i.e. the nimbys being told there's nothing to be done. For what it's worth (very...

In such situations, the sensible PR move is to release an operational note to the media marked 'not for publication' telling them that the event is expected to happen at such-and-such a time. That way, if it all goes according to plan, the media are ready and waiting and they get coverage, and...

Oh... then I was looking in the wrong place... my mistake. I think the Bolton News will be sorry when the tunnel does get finished, they've been dining out on the twists and turns.

Since you mention it... That's not quite what I said :wink: The all-day lane closures are because of Fillie. The nightly closures are because of resurfacing. That was my point, and it was a new one.

On a related note, it was suggested a few posts ago that the evening closures of the A666 were due to Fillie only tunneling at night, instead of 24 hours a day as planned. This article from the Bolton News (of course) contradicts that. Apparently the evening closures are due to planned...

The excavated ground doesn't have to support itself. As was pointed out earlier in this thread, Fillie is fitted with a hood and fore-poling plates which extend 2.275 metres ahead of the main body. So the ground is supported before the cutting booms even get to work. All of which of course...

According to the article and picture in Rail Engineer, the earth face is supported by a hood while the cutting booms work underneath. The fore-poling plates under this hood are designed to be rammed into the earth to provide pre-support before the lining is installed. Presumably that is why they...

Roger Ford is very quick to leap to the defence of the good old ECML electrification at the expense of the nasty GWML project. Fair enough, so GWML is costing nearly four times more. Perhaps Series 1 is over-engineered. However, he overlooks some important points. They are: 1) When ECML...