featurenews
Installation of
Grahame Taylor reports...
noise barriers
Noise barriers will be installed to reduce
the construction noise in residential areas.
trains and freight. The effect of any rebuilt. Signals had to be repositioned
bottleneck is to cause local traffic and cables diverted.
regulation problems, but these spread
further afield as delayed trains are unable The 2005 perspective
to link in with pathways at junctions and We've dug out a leaflet produced in
stations many miles away. May 2005 that outlined to the local
communities what was going to
'The December Timetable' happen. Many reading it at the time
The TV4 project is a bold scheme that would have been sceptical. "From
will remedy the problem and also give Spring 2005 to 2008, Network Rail will
higher line speeds. Its completion by be adding two new tracks between
the end of 2008 will coincide with the Armitage and Tamworth," it proudly
introduction of 'The December proclaimed on the front cover. To give
Timetable.' This is due to operate from some comfort that engineers have a
December 14th – a date etched into the softer side, there were the obligatory
psyche of everyone involved on TV4. pictures of a badger and a newt on the
Almost all of the railway in the project back cover.
was built originally with just a two track The real substance of the leaflet was
formation. There has not been the in the middle portion. Here was a list of
luxury of reclaiming previously widened all the projected sites along with their
formations – almost everything has had completion dates. This was serious stuff
to be new-build. Widening an indeed. The scale of the work was
embankment gave rise to a number of daunting. It was one thing to relocate
obvious engineering projects. the crayfish in the Darnford Brook or to
Overbridges were in the way and had to make weekly checks on rehoused
be lengthened. Underbridges had to be badgers, but it was quite another to
widened. Culverts had to be lengthened rebuild the bridge that carried the A38
and overhead line equipment structures dual carriageway to span four tracks.
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