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Gralistair kindly sent this photo for publication.
Site clearance has taken place, but no electrification works in evidence yet.
Copyright Gralistair 2017
ALX400 kindly sent this photo for publication.
The key reason the large cranes were brought in for the weekend (please see Photos and commentary in Series 4250 taken the day before) was to lift more parapets into place. Examples on the opposite side of the bridge from the previous shots can be seen to the left of this picture.
ALX400 took the shot from Chorley Road, looking along the bridge towards the A6.
Copyright ALX400 2015
The tensioners used on Phase 2 are made in Austria. This is the first use of this model in the UK.
The writing is bilingual.
I believe the bag suspended bottom left of shot was attached by engineers, not dog walkers.
Taken from the public footpath which runs south of the tracks east of Huyton statiion, looking north.
Phil Wieland has kindly submitted this photograph for publication.
Metalwork appears
Phil took this shot from the westbound platform looking east.
Copyright Phil Wieland 2014
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 Pocket Nook; taken from station side."
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
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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.
The 12:07 to Blackpool South, first stop Kirkham and Wesham on the first day after the blockade.
The train sets off, with St Werburgh's church marking the way.
In Mid-November 2014 this bridge had bolts fixed above the central column to which electrification masts ('stanchions') can be attached. this involved closing the motorway's fast lanes overnight.
The bolts are approximately under the passageway between the two carriages on this Northern Class 156.
The lane closure cones were in the process of being removed.
Taken from Stadt Moers Park, Whiston, looking northwest.
Sunshine bathes the penultimate day before the station is closed for over three months for a radical transformation.
Work is in hand to rebuild the Platform 1/2 island, making it longer and straighter.
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 from the station side of the road."
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
Structure through roof of old platform. The Gippsland line to Traralgon was electrified between March 1956 and June 1987 when passenger and goods trains were hauled by L-Class electric locomotives, as well as briquette trains on the electrified Yallourn and SEC Morwell branches.
The overhead between Warragul and Traralgon was removed in 1994
While the Bournemouth line was being electrified, many local services were operated by borrowed diesel mechanical units. Some of them came from Wales, and our drivers soon found strange Welsh places to wind up on the destination blinds!
The transformers and the shed that holds mercury-arc rectifiers. The rectified supply is used fir rail, tram and trolleybus overhead.
Gralistair kindly sent this photograph for publication.
He added: "More natty kit."
Copyright Gralistair 2018.
Paul Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
It shows parapet extension work which has followed electrification.
Paul writes:
" Compare these shots with the earlier pics of brackets on the road bridge shown in the 5692 series."
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
FTPE 185 102 slows from its race across Chat Moss with a Newcastle-Lime St flyer.
Note the generally lighter colour of the metal forest over the train compared with the tracks to its right as we look at it. This is the result of adding to or replacing 1961 metalwork with 2014 metalwork as the Chat Moss route is electrified.
Taken from Wavertree Road overbridge looking east.
Hunts Cross is, strictly, outside the scope of Liverpool to Manchester electrification.
I include it as a 'boundary station' and as somewhere frequently mentioned in scenes at Liverpool South Parkway and Allerton Depot.
A sudden shaft of sunlight brings out the contrasting colours of a Northern Class 156 heading for Lime Street with an all stations train from Manchester Oxford Road and a Merseyrail Class 507 or 508 arriving with an all stations shuttle from Southport via Liverpool Central.
Taken from the station footbridge looking east.
66095 passes South Moreton with 1335 Bicester C.O.D. to Didcot T.C. on 1st July 2014.
With electrification work progressing a section of very tall posts have been installed between South Moreton and Cholsey, and it's clear to see how this location, and many others, is soon to change!
Final Day of the Noarlunga Line operating before shutdown for electrification. Also the last day the 2000 class railcars operated on the line.
Paul Gaskell kindly gave this photo for publication.
Northern 142 007 heads north along the 'Windsor Link' towards Salford Crescent. The Chat Moss route to Liverpool bears off to the left.
The route under the camera is due to be electrified by late 2016.
Paul took this shot from the bridge which carries Oldfield Road over the junction.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015
The changes afoot at Allerton Depot are not trivial.
The fleet of Northern Electrics constantly grows and now it appears from what I am told and can see that the depot building is being extended. Furthermore, the trackwork and wiring at the western end of the site is material.
All this with trains whizzing past and using the depot.
Open heart surgery with the patient awake and going about his daily business.
This shot was taken from a Lime Street to Manchester Oxford Road all stations, looking northeast.
The track furthest from camera is a depot track with 1961 overhead wiring in place. Work is in hand to upgrade that wiring to modern standards - eg the new mast in centre shot awaiting fixings - and convert it to a 'headshunt'.
The middle track the 'Up and Down Electric' bi-directional, 3rd-rail electrified single track running parallel to the track my train is on.. It is not only third rail electrified but as can be seen it, has 1961 vintage OHLE above.
The bridge visible to the right is long disused. It carries a mature wood above and is completely isolated by pallisade fencing at both ends.At one time it would have enabled pedestrians walking along Brunt Lane Liverpool 19 to cross the railway; now it is a nature reserve.
Soon to be history? This service was intended to be electrified in December 2014, but there will be slippage.
A Northern Class 156 eases off for its Newton-le-Willows stop as it passes the Huskisson Memorilal to its left. At this point the train is between the two southern points of the triangular layout. In view near the camera is Parkside Junction, ahead of the train is Newton-le-Willows Junction and to the right is Lowton Junction.
The N-W line has carried two passenger trains per day, Monday to Friday, for some years. Unfortunately for passengers, they both run in the same direction, so for anyone in Earlestown or Newton hoping to commute to Wigan the service is useless. It is said to be run to keep staff route knowledge, but it does carry passengers.
Taken from the public foot crossing's northern steps, looking southwest.
The 'Low' in Lowton is spoken like 'cow' or 'how', not 'low' or 'so'.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photograph for publication.
Short, fat mast bases are being installed. The earth inside the cylindrical pile is augered out, then it is filled with concrete and the bolts to which the mast will be attached.
Copyright Wrinkley 2018.
Sod the Drummer kindly sent this photo for publication.
A mystery object (birdbath?) like one installed between Platfroms 3 and 4 being installed opposite Platform 1.
Copyright Sod the Drummer 2017.
This location on the edge of Chat Moss on the Stephensons' masterpiece is a striking mix of 19th and 21st Centuries.
The crossing is manually operated by users but controlled by the traditional signalman at the adjacent signalbox.
The route was electrified to 25kV within the last 18 months.
FTPE 185 120 travels east on a not-so-flying 1E69 Newcastle flyer, having had 60092's coal train (see previous image, 1934) sent out before it.
In 2014 60092 will pull that train at one heck of a lick, but the flyer should be even faster. In any event, the coal train will have to slow to 30mph at Sankey Junction, which will almost certainly bring the following flyer to a stand.
All that said, these shots are about electrification, with a fine set of metalwork on show.
Taken from Roby Platform 4 looking east.
Gralistair kindly sent this photo for publication.
Red Moss pit tip with mast to the fore.
Copyright Gralistair 2017.
One of the many electric panels in the elevator control room of the Buckner Building.
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Once the largest building in Alaska, it was built by the military to house nearly every resident of the port town of Whittier, Alaska. It was designed to be a "city under one roof" and includes everything a "normal" city would have; Theater, Medical Ward, Cafeteria, Staterooms, and of course a jail... The town of Whittier is built around the ice-free port that houses more boats than it does people. Boasting a population of less than 300 people, Whittier is a modern day ghost town. In 1964 a 9.2 magnitude earthquake ripped the small city apart, killing 14 people and deeming the Buckner building unsafe.
Laced with asbestos, mold, mildew and various walking hazards, the building has remained an abandoned wasteland. All 5 floors are flooded from the melting of Whittier's average 253" of snow, leaving all floors an ice skating rink in the winter. Calcium deposits hang from the ceiling in the form of stalactites, graffiti and spray paint cover most of the walls, and almost every room has been hit with some form of a bat or axe.
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Although the Huyton to Wigan line passenger services have been electrified the WCML still carries diesel traffic, such as this Virgin Voyager which we suspect travels its entire journey under the wires.
A Northern Electric Class 319 waits to set off All Stations to Liverpool Lime Street.
Taken looking north from Platform 4.
Wrinkley kindly sent this photograph for publication.
He added: "There is quite a lot of action around Lostock this weekend, they are replacing part of the up line platform surface and there is some wiring activity."
Copyright Wrinkley 2018.
John Evans kindly sent this photo for publication.
The two "bows" of the bowstring bridge being assembled prior to being given a "tandem lift" into place.
They are being put together in the worksite adjacent to Water Street.
Copyright John Evans 2017
Sunshine bathes the penultimate day before the station is closed for over three months for a radical transformation.
A last look at the station's semaphore signals. Servants good and true, but life moves on.
Note the electrification masts already appearing in the carriage sidings area.
ALX400 kindly sent this photo for publication.
A road-railer involved with electrification work.
ALX400 took this shot from the northbound platform looking north.
Copyright ALX400 2015.
Graham Howarth kindly gave this photo for publication.
The view towards Blackpool from this raised road bridge.
No sign of electrification work (except for the bridge itself, of course.)
Copyright Graham A Howarth 2016
Planning Consent required the electrification work in Rainhill to use 'headspans' rather than TTCs or portals.
There are four pairs of masts for this equipment.
This pair, the second most easterly of the four, has just been finished.
Please compare with series 3054 photos to assess recent progress.
All four pairs appear to have used different fixings and layouts.
Taken from the eastbound platform looking east.
A Northern Class 150 accelerates away from the camera on the London lines, heading all stations to Manchester Oxford Road.
Note the generally lighter colour of the metalwork to the left of the train as we look at it. This is the amount of new metalwork sometimes replacing and othertimes supplementing 1961 metalwork, as the tracks to the left of the 150 are the Chat Moss line in the final stages of electrification.
Taken from Wavertree Road overbridge looking east.
The Vulcan Foundry stood on the southern edge of Newton-le-Willows. The factory built many steam locos for service in the UK and around the world, and a good few diesels, too, towards the end. It had a 'Model Village' of good quality housing for employees, known still as Vulcan Village. The factory was flattened some years ago, but the village is Listed, well maintained and inhabited. After some delay housing is now being built on the factory site.
Both factory and village sit in the Vee where the WCML heads north east and the line to Earlestown heads north west.
Whilst I was waiting for an Northern Electrics Class 319 to pass on the first day of the electrified Lime Street to Warrington Bank Quay service this ATW Class 185 hurried southwards (right to left) on the Earlestown line.
The Vee of the lines is behind the camera.
Vulcan Village can be seen to the right of shot.
Taken from Alder Root Lane, looking northwest.
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 Wigan."
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2016
Hirsute Northern 156 459 sets out for Lime St under the pair of wires now stretched through Rainhill station.
This means that at least two wires run continuously from two masts east of the 'Vee' of Huyton Junction to just shy of Sankey Viaduct.
Although the fixings are plainly temporary, the nature of the headspan arrangement, unique to Rainhill in the Edge Hill-Wigan and Eartlestown phase of the electrification project can be seen. This was a compromise between engineering, finance and aesthetics.
Taken from the westbound platform looking west.