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Paul Gaskell kindly gave this photo for publication.
On Monday 14 December 2015 the All Stations Liverpool Lime Street to Warrington Bank Quay via Huyton and Earlestown went electric, nearly putting a tin hat on Phase 2 of the NW Electrification Scheme, with finishing Allerton Depot Phase 3, Roby-Huyton 4th track and two footbridge guards the only things left to do.
On the first day of the Bank Quay electric service a Northern Electrics Class 319 calls at Earlestown from the west.
Taken from the southern end of Platform 3.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015
Wrinkley kindly sent this photo for publication.
Work continues on the replacement bridge.
Copyright Wrinkley 2017.
A reminder of one of the many reasons the Bolton Line electrification has taken extra time and money - the massive concrete structure immediately beyond the bridge had to be devised and built in short order following a burst water main.
Made from 14 light frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.8.0.
Not very happy, but I´m not a professional!!😀, so, here it is, take a look into the isolators from the electrical post, very nice light! I was trying to get some meteors from last night, but, because the high humidity, and high clouds, not possible.
When wiring went up it was realised that it might be possible for someone to get an object such as an umbrella too close to the wires for safety. Emergency plywood shields were installed at the two footbridges at the station and also at the Leach Lane footbridge between Lea Green and St Helens Junction.
Permanent guards have been installed on the mid-platform bridge at Rainhill and the process of installation is nearly complete at the western end footbridge.
Similar work at Leach Lane has yet to start, the plywood structure is still in place.
The full electric service had been in full swing for a week here, with a Northern Electrics Class 319 heading away from camera bound for Warrington Bank Quay as a Liverpool-bound Class 319 slows on its All Stations journey from Manchester Victoria.
Taken from the eastbound platform looking east.
Electrified border fence on the Indian side of India-Pakistan border near the Wagah border crossing, Punjab, India.
Phil Wieland kindly supplied this photo for publication.
This 'then' shot shows the station before any electrification work started.
Copyright Phil Wieland 2014
Graham Howarth kindly gave this photo for publication.
Salwick station ramp down to its island platform, looking towards Blackpool.
Copyright Graham A Howarth 2016.
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A train for Preston passes Salwick signalbox heading towards the camera.
No sign of any electrification works yet. Graham took this shot from Bridge 12 which was rebuilt as preliminary work.
Copyright Graham A Howarth 2016.
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Whilst the last phase of Huyton Junction re-quadrupling was taking place services from Wigan to Lime Street were terminating at St Helens Central, with rail replacement buses on to Lime St and stations between. The trains reversed at St Helens, forming northbound services. This entailed using the station's trailing crossover, which had not long been electrified for this eventuality. That crossover is otherwise little used and never normally used by passenger services.
This sequence of shots runs through the track and signalling work needed to perform these manoeuvres.
The train terminates clear of the crossover and beyond the "Dolly" signal which controls it.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2017.
The Ince Moss Chord (ELR = IMG) is a sharply curved, bi-directional single track which joins the Huyton to Wigan line to the West Coast Main Line.
The chord meets the Huyton to Wigan 'Lancashire Union Line' (ELR = SBH3) at Ince Moss Junction and the WCML here at Bamfurlong Sidings Junction.
The three lines, the two junctions mentioned above and Springs Branch Junction form a triangle
As part of the current electrification works the chord has been relaid and resignalled. It was double track, as is implied by Google Earth. As always, the complicated layout is clearly displayed in 'Railway Track Diagrams, Midlands and North West' where it appears in Section 27A.
The lines coming in from the left are the Up and Down Goods Lines. The Up and Down Fast are beyond the junction, as implied by the pair of Virgin Voyagers hurrying south (left to right).
The wiring on the chord now appears complete, unlike in photos in the 3162 series where the last 100 yards to the junction remained unwired.
Taken through the pallisade fence which separates the tracks from the public footpath which follows the chord for some distance, looking southeast.
ALX400 kindly sent this photograph for publication.
ALX added: "Just been past Chorley and Blackrod on my way home from work. There's plenty going on line side at Chorley in the cutting before the arches and tunnel.
I noticed road-rail stuff along the line with steel at Blackrod. There were new masts and stuff on the floor ready to go up and a large base previously photographed about to be done. There was no change to the proposed scrape near the footpath. An orange team were doing base stuff near Anderton Hall Crossing which is still closed."
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Graham Howarth kindly gave this photo for publication.
We believe the location from which we took this shot is legal and safe, though it definitely warrants stout footwear, preferably wellies. At no time did we pass any signs, or breach the railway's admirably complete pallisade fencing.
This is on teh Bolton side of Euxton Junction.
A new mast base in close up
Taken from within the Vee of Euxton Junction, but clearly outside NR's perimeter.
Copyright Graham A Howarth 2016.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photo for publication.
He added this note to this batch of eighteen pictures:
"The Bolton-bound (southbound) track has been relaid south from the junction to about 100 metres beyond Beaumont Road, one photo shows the temporary joint between old and new track.
Looking at my photos today and some poor quality Google Earth satellite imagery from 2000, 2005 and 2013, the distance between the track centre has increased from about 4.5 metres to 6.7 metres. Maybe this explains the big pile of spoil which appeared then disappeared from the side of the bridge. The dirt road by the north side of the track must have been moved further north.
The ballast train was stopped at the junction when I arrived, but it made two runs to drop the ballast while I was there. The possession end at 5.15 am tomorrow (Monday)."
Copyright Wrinkey 2016.
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66601 stands with a rake of empties near a big gap in the railway to enable lowering the Chapel Street public subway to take place. The separate station subway will be handled separately by being given a "direct-fastened deck".
Copyright ALX400 2016
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Some site clearance has taken place in advance of electrification and related work.
Copyright Codville 2016
A Phooltas UTV with masts laden wagon, waiting for its next round of mast erection on Rajpura-Patiala-Bathinda section.
Paul Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
An unexpected but very welcome extension to NW Electrification!
Electric vehicle recharging points have been installed at Lea Green station car park.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
The first arrival.
Northern 319 363 arrives with the 07:35 Manchester Airport to Lime Street on Thursday 5th March 2015.
The first passenger-carrying electric train westbound along Stephenson's masterpiece.
Taken from the country end of Platform 4, looking west.
Phil Wieland kindly sent this photo for publication.
Phil added: "The track in platform 7 (old number) has been replaced, it was missing earlier in the week. The edging still needs to be done."
Copyright Phil Wieland 2017.
This is supposedly the biggest smile Little Adrian has ever displayed. And I was there to capture the remarkable moment.
Strobist:
AB1600 in large strip bank camera right
AB800 in large strip bank camera left, behind subject
AB800 in beauty dish w/ sock directly above camera
All strobes were flagged from the backdrop
Triggered by Cybersyncs
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikkor 50mm Æ’/1.4
Exposure: 1/250th at Æ’/4
ISO Speed: 100
Focal length: 50mm
Enjoy!
Overhead wiring along the single track headshunt now appears to be attached to new masts along its whole length.
The new mast is paler than the 1960s upright, to which the new wires are not connected. The dark background shows up the overhead wires.
The track furthest from camera is the headshunt. The track between it and my train is the bi-directional 3rd rail electrified Merseyrail line to Hunts Cross. It also has 25kV overhead.
Taken from a Lime Street to Manchester Oxford Road stopper, looking north.
Wrinkley has kindly sent this photo for publication.
He writes: "The new drainage only just went past the Ladybridge towards Bolton and doesn’t look like it’s going any further.
The fencing is the only thing that’s happening at the moment and that’s only a two man job. There is still a lot of plant and material near Lostock station, but no activity in the locality."
Wrinkley took this shot from Ladybridge looking towards Bolton. Up to the 1950s this section was four track, with water troughs.
Thank you Wrinkey
ALX400 kindly sent this photograph for publication.
He added: "They have been busy at Blackrod. Two TTCs up on the platform needing to be danglied which will probably be tonight and registration arms on the floor ready for the others."
Copyright ALX400 2018.
this was taken by Patricia Cruz and used the camera of Lesley...the girl in the picture is lesley (electric)...
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Phil added: "I keep hoping I've had my last ride home on a diesel, but they keep turning up. I think the diagram must go somewhere not electrified, because this service was a 156 yesterday as well, so it doesn't look like a substitution for a failed 319."
The train was a Class 156 yesterday." (Please see Photo 8492m Huyton and at least one day last week.
Copyright Phil Wieland 2017.
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Please see Phil's tremendous 'nw-sparks' blog for extensive commentary on this and other aspects of North West Electrification.
Back in the Spring at Rainhill, at the footbridge between Lea Green and St Helens Junction and at the footbridge at the western end of Manchester Victoria Network Rail had to install bespoke temporary screens to separate bridge users from wires, particularly on the bridge steps.
The screens at Manchester Victoria have been replaced with a more permanent version, but Rainhill still awaits the finished versions on its two footbridges.
The temporary versions are functional, but no-one pretends they are finished.
Copyright Phil Wieland 2015.
High tension electrical transmission lines and poles extend to the horizon across the South Florida peninsula. Unfortunately they are a necessary blemish on the natural landscape.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photograph for publication.
He added: "No noticeable changes south of Lostock following the weekend, still one mast missing and no extension of the earth wire.
However there is an autotransformer cable north of the station and the first two TTCs north of the station have acquired some extra fittings similar to those on the portal south of the station, is this the other power supply connection?"
Please note also the 100 MPH speed limit looking north from the station.
Copyright Wrinkley 2018.