feature
Throwaway lines ambitious timescales delivered time
These were the throwaway lines in the after time. Engineering on a huge scale
leaflet. Another gem was "River Tame shoehorned into a narrow 12 miles strip
bridge – knock down the existing of work site. Our brief 'retrospective'
structure/bridge/crossing and replace with celebrates the achievements of all
another two track structure." Then barely a engineering disciplines. For many, this
one-liner for "Huddlesford Village – Build project has been a fair chunk of their
new road, rail and canal bridge." Perhaps it engineering careers. Some were
should have been bridges – plural! involved long before the site works
We covered these structures in our started. For them, the end is in sight and
October 2006 issue. In the same edition there are the prospects of new
we looked at the building of an immense challenges.
bridge over the A513 at Handsacre that Network Rail has recently announced
was to be rolled into position over the the start of work at Reading and
Christmas holidays. With some scepticism Birmingham - see features on both
we looked forward to the rebuilding of a stations within this issue. The Olympics
nearby canal bridge. By the February continue to swallow resources and there
edition we were eating large portions of is always Crossrail, Thameslink and the
humble pie. Everything was still to upgrade of the GWR. The engineers will
programme. move on. The four-tracked WCML through
the Trent Valley will be their legacy and
Delivered time after time the newts and badgers will settle down
Lichfield Trent Valley station. This was the story of the TV4 – into their new homes.
22 | the rail engineer | october 2008
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