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Thanks Philip, please be assured that I don't make a practice of waving tape measures around on live railways, but as there were no trains through Lostock today, no-one on the station and the nearest workgang some 300 metres away, the risk seemed to be minimal. Thanks for the calculation...

My estimate of the Trinity Street bridge is wrong. I assumed that the top concrete slab at the foot of the wall was at platform level, looking at some old photos, the platform level is at least at the top of the row of stonework and possibly higher. This would make the bridge height a maximum of...

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I have emailed websupport@networkrail.co.uk to get an answer. I could be be that the certificate is out of date. I have seen this message before on other quite genuine major websites.

Thank you Philip, but I think the mistake was as much mine as yours. My information re. the bridge came from here. https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/work-to-repair-and-resurface-boltons-trinity-street-bridge-to-start-this-month Looking at photos 5776 e, g and i, and assuming that...

That's been there for some time, I think it was connected with track lowering under the Mayor Street bridge.

I went to a meeting organised by Network Rail on Wednesday, I got the impression that the only thing to be happening soon between Bolton and Lostock is overnight de-vegetation. I was told that the OLE design is not ready yet and saw nothing as detailed as Bill's information on the attachment.

What's the programme from Salford to Lostock?

According to the Bolton News it will take a 44 ton lorry.

I believe Moses Gate is being rebuilt to match new track alignment, both horizontally and vertically. The track is being lowered to give clearance under the adjacent road bridge and I have read that the two tracks were too close to each other.

I joined in February and have tried to send a private message this weekend but haven't managed it. I get a message saying that I may not have sufficient privileges, or my account has been disabled. I did get an email from you on 21/7/15 to say that someone had tried to log in to my account 5...