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Morgana as Crimson Viper and Kanzer as Doctrine Dark from Super Street Fighter IV.
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Reg kindly sent this photograph for publication.
New bases near Weston Street, seen here beyond and to the right of the white bags..
Copyright Reg 2018.
Phil Wieland kindly sent this photo for publication.
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.
John Evans kindly sent this photo for publication.
Over Easter 2014 Pendolino services were diverted over the Chat Moss route using Manchester Piccadilly Platforms 13 and 14 and the east-north curves of the triangle east of Newton-le-Willows.
John took this shot near Eccles station looking east, with the M602 to the left.
Copyright John Evans 2014
Photographer: Matej Å tegar (Slovenia)
Location: Lenart, Slovenia
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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 the sign to the right of shot and on Google Earth. As always, the complicated layout is clearly displayed in 'Railway Track Diagrams, Midlands and North West' where it appears in Section 27A.
This shot is taken from the same place as Photo 3162k, using more zoom. The lines coming in from the left are the Up and Down Goods Lines. The Up and Down Fast are beyond the junction, where a Virgin Pendolino is accelerating souhwards (left to right).
Taken through the pallisade fence which separates the tracks from the public footpath which follows the chord for some distance, looking southeast.
Phil Wieland kindly sent this photo for publication.
Phil commented: "Signal LL3586 has been taken away leaving just a stump. I'm expecting it to be replaced by one without a feather, and a new signal (number unknown.) with a position four feather should appear on the far stump, for the fourth track."
Copyright Phil Wieland 2017.
Phil Wieland kindly sent this photo for publication.
Phil added: "Walking to the end of nine revealed a new mast base for the electrification of the new platforms."
Copyright Phil Wieland 2017.
Whilst following the NW electrification I have encountered many pleasant, professional Orangemen who are clearly proud of their work and happy to spend a few minutes sharing their expertise. Today was another smashing example.
Two chaps working on the southern end of Platform 5 told me what's what and readily agreed to use my camera to take shots from a non-public area.
I really appreciate their unselfishness and good humour.
Paul Gaskell kindly gave this photograph for publication.
The line to Blackpool North, open for traffic in about five weeks time..
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2018.
Phil Wieland kindly sent this photo for publication.
A new signal and overhead wire.
Copyright Phil Wieland 2017.
Whilst following the NW electrification I have encountered many pleasant, professional Orangemen who are clearly proud of their work and happy to spend a few minutes sharing their expertise. Today was another smashing example.
Two chaps working on the southern end of Platform 5 told me what's what and readily agreed to use my camera to take shots from a non-public area.
I really appreciate their unselfishness and good humour.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photo for publication.
Contractors' portacabins have been removed, earth has been bulldozed into position. Pretty close to job done.
Taken looking north to the former worksite..
Copyright Wrinkley 2015
No signs of electrification work,as such.
The piles of signal troughing materials indicates what has to come forst.
Note the ominous vegetation to the right.
Wires have gone up through the station.
So far they include return wires and full wires over the Platform 2 track.
Platform 3 tack has not yet been wired.
The Platform 1 line appears to be being electrified only as an overrun from its junction with the main line. That wiring ends at Platform 1's southern end and appears complete.
Paul Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
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 crossover in its normal position. Please note the manual lock lying on the ballast, lower centre of shot.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2017.
Looking north over the remains of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal.
Clifton station is about three quarters of a mile beyond the train.
Please note the fawn coloured deposit at extreme left of shot....
What's missing from the modern railway scene are verticals - with the exception of electrification masts - but steam depots had a lot of vertical interest. The concrete coaling tower loomed over Bolton shed and was a landmark from miles away. The telegraph poles/lighting masts and semaphore signals also added their tall form to the view. There is a water tank by the main line by the signal too plus the huge tank on a brick base on the extreme right.
The only steam engine in the shot on this last day of operation is LMS Black 5 4-6-0 45260.
Whilst following the NW electrification I have encountered many pleasant, professional Orangemen who are clearly proud of their work and happy to spend a few minutes sharing their expertise. Today was another smashing example.
Two chaps working on the southern end of Platform 5 told me what's what and readily agreed to use my camera to take shots from a non-public area.
I really appreciate their unselfishness and good humour.
Paul D Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
NB: The NR sign on the bridge calls it 'Island Brow', but Bing Maps and the street name sign call the road 'Islands Brow';
Detailed preparations for electrification show by the bridge. Here is 'earth bonding'.
Paul took this from the steps by the bridge looking east.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015
* A Then(2013) & Now(2014) piece *
Bust car and the mother of all chest infections has meant lying low for a few days, but with the prospect that the furniture started looking edible, time to get out, but not far! We are 'mid-season', just about with the RHTT workings and the days are drawing in, rapidly approaching, so it feels, the winter solstice and so shots taken out of the 10:00 to 14:00 slot, if its glum anyway, don't come out too well; and this was certainly true today with the pair of class 20s in a cutting on their way up for reversal at Stocksbridge, Deepcar really. As it was a year ago this week that a Network Rail Test Train set came up the branch, I thought it might add a bit of extra interest to include 2 of the pictures which weren't posted last November; of the class 31 approaching the old Oughtibridge STation side and it passing the old station, now a private residence. As it is within a few days of the appearance of the Test Train set, hauled by class 31, 31285, this time last year, the scene looks very similar for the passage of the Rail-Head Treatment Train, RHTT, en-route for the turn-round and here drawn along by 20303. I suppose there is clear evidence that the line-side vegetation has got closer to the line, on the left of the 20, and the scene looked slightly greener for the passage of the 31 (on the 5th November in fact) than it does for the 20; albeit the 20s are passing 4 hours later than the 31 did at round 11am. In the lower picture, a large Damac lorry is negotiating the restricted width road over what used to be the double-track electrified Woodhead line; difficult to believe looking at this and the space now available for the 20s and the nightly, usually 66 hauled, steel trains to the Stocksbridge works of Tata, on the single line now underneath. The RHTT is on the 3 days (Tu., Th. & Sat.) per week working, 3S14, from Sheffield to Wakefield Kirkgate though it has already been around doing its work since early this morning, having run out to Worksop, back to Sheffield, north to Wakefield via Masbrough and is now on its final leg back to Wakefield. In both the upper pictures, on the right-hand side of the locos, the old wooden cable hangers can be seen. These carried signalling and other control functions and at the top of the posts, the large attachments, gutter-shaped, carrying the 30kVAC feeder cable, all along the side of the 45 miles of tracks between Manchester London Rd (now Piccadilly) in the west and to both Wath YArd and Rotherwood Exchange Sidings in the East. One can well imagine the sort of line-side 'incursions' which would be happening these days, with all that very expensive copper conductor carried on short posts, through out-of-the-places along the 45 miles of the line...
First wire up between Ewart Road, St Helens and the north end of Carr Mill Viaduct.
Please see the similar, but wireless, Photo 2918j taken a few days earlier.
Taken from the track leading north from Island Brow bridge looking south.
NB: The NR sign on the bridge calls it 'Island Brow', but Bing Maps and the street name sign call the road 'Islands Brow';
The line to Blackpool South reopened as planned after a Winter blockade to undertake major route improvement and electrification works on the route to Blackpool North.
Kirkham and Wesham station has been substantially rebuilt with a third platform for the first time ever, bi-directional signalling and a lift in the pipeline.
inianin kindly submitted this photograph for publication.
Looking south towards Bolton. Contact and catenary wires overhead, but no autotransformer wires yet.
Copyright inianin 2018.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photo for publication.
The worksite at the south end of the northbound island platform, with work on awnings in progress.
Copyright Wrinkley 2017
The gap to cross.
ALX400's shots on the 27th were taken on Friday night. This is the following Sunday and much of the decking is in place.
Taken from the footbridge looking south.
In railway parlance this Bridge is 'MVE2/20 Chorley Road', ie Bridge 20 on line MVE2, crossed by Chorley Road.
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Wrinkley kindly sent this photograph for publication.
Wrinkley added: "The only serious gap is about 350 metres eastwards from Dean Clough bridge, where there are three masts half out of the ground. The whole stretch from Moor Lane to Beaumont Road is about 50% danglified. The only sign of activity was rail replacement at Lostock Junction."
Copyright Wrinkley 2018.
Paul Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
It shows parapet extension work on Corporation Street bridge in central St Helens which has followed electrification.
Paul writes:
" Taken looking towards Fingerpost and Parr."
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
Gralistair kindly sent this photo for publication.
What a difference 24 hours can make! Please compare with yesterday's shots at the same location with some piles only half driven home.
Copyright Gralistair 2017
Gralistair kindly sent this photo for publication.
The first overbridge along the Blackpool line.
Copyright Gralistair 2017
Paul Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
It shows parapet extension work on Corporation Street bridge in central St Helens which has followed electrification.
Paul writes:
" Taken looking towards the town centre."
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
Joe Callaghan kindly sent this photo for publication.
Track laying between Farnworth and Moses Gate.
Joe took this shot from an overbridge.
Copyright Joe Callaghan 2015
Whilst following the NW electrification I have encountered many pleasant, professional Orangemen who are clearly proud of their work and happy to spend a few minutes sharing their expertise. Today was another smashing example.
Two chaps working on the southern end of Platform 5 told me what's what and readily agreed to use my camera to take shots from a non-public area.
I really appreciate their unselfishness and good humour.
Gralistair kindly sent this photo for publication.
No electrification works in evidence yet.
Copyright Gralistair 2017
Wrinkley kindly sent this photo for publication.
He took this photo looking back towards his vantage point for the previous shot (6820t). That photo was taken from Rumworth Road overbridge which is out of view beyond the curve in the distance. There is nowhere to legally and safely access the tracks between that shot and this other than through a train window or by invitation.
Mast bases (steel piles) can be seen half driven home in the distance. The left hand one as we look at it is shown in Photo 6796i taken a couple of days earlier from a train. This pair APPEAR to be the limit of base-building along this line, HOWEVER there is at least one base driven home nearer the camera than that pair. It can just be made out on the following enlargements, but was shown clearly (and to my surprise) in Photo 6796g which followed 6796i,.
I agree with Wrinkley's estimate that this clutch of bases is approx 700 yards from Lostock Junction at the approximate site of the "SPs" and "SB" shown here:
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=53.5713&lon=...
Wrinkley's vantage point ws the overbridge north of the "W" in Wigan Lease Farm, as shown here:
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=53.5681&lon=...
If you aren't familiar with this stunning software please try clicking on and moving the blue blob at 7 o'clock on its display - is that wowoid, or what?!
Please note the round object lower left of shot. We believe this is to do with drainage or cable ducting, not electrification as such.
Copyright Wrinkley 2017.