RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) There are people standing next to the Webcam - I can hear camera shutters...... and hands flags waving at the camera from almost every window Edit - thanks Dagworth Edited April 10, 2014 by brushman47544 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2014 and hands waving at the camera from almost every windowHands or flags? Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I got it going just in time! Seems weird but great seeing that live in the 'States. Thanks again. Pete. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) Hands or flags? Andi flags Andi Edited April 10, 2014 by Dagworth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 This video is private ....... It should be OK now it's finished its process. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2014 What is the second to last coach of the train? It seems to have inset doors. Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2014 Thanks Andy. Loved that far off Chime, probably at the station? P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 What is the second to last coach of the train? It seems to have inset doors. Andi Mark 1 Pullman - http://www.flickriver.com/photos/linda_chen/5556552357/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Granitechops Posted April 10, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) And if it will let me from the other side down on the seawall by the Lifeboat house with the shipping containers just in view to the right Edited April 10, 2014 by Granitechops 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Great shot, Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2014 And if it will let me from the other side down on the seawall by the Lifeboat house 4-10-2014_001.jpg with the shipping contsainer just in view to the right Superb shot and well worth the wait! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 'Put your back into it!' Orange Army 2.jpg They started to remove the containers now? I seem to remember someone saying that they would have to cut them up for removal... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Shuttering wasn't tapered off, Don, they're starting from the other end. IIRC there was a load of red rock/soil spoil dumped behind the L sections at that end which they look to have been clearing. Wonder if we'll see big red spidery thing back? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Granitechops Posted April 10, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) plus and for coaching stock enthusiasts last coach 99122 2nd from last 99350 3rd from last 99371 4th from last, Kitchen car E1666 5th from last 5249 but I wont do the rest unless someone needs to see a particular one in the rake Edited April 10, 2014 by Granitechops 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 They started to remove the containers now? I seem to remember someone saying that they would have to cut them up for removal... I think that'll be one of the last tasks, the cleanup. They're working on the roadway now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 They started to remove the containers now? I seem to remember someone saying that they would have to cut them up for removal... They were still there when SNG came through earlier, see my photo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Shuttering wasn't tapered off, Don, they're starting from the other end. So I see image.jpg IIRC there was a load of red rock/soil spoil dumped behind the L sections at that end which they look to have been clearing. I wondered if they had come up against the buried track panels, that is if they were not removed Wonder if we'll see big red spidery thing back? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 IIRC the track panels were removed early on - they'd put them there as a stop gap (literally) before the containers went in. When the wall went up their presence was no longer needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Meanwhile out at sea someone had a grandstand view And still on a nautical note the old Lifeboat station If I remember correctly it was shown on the 1890 Old Maps of Dawlish 1/500 scale the red tent thingy is to shelter the security guys the foot bridge is just the other side of the lifeboat shed so they can exit rapidly if the tide starts to splash them! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Much of the 'old red sandstone' cliffs from Teignmouth [pedant]New Red Sandstone (or Sherwood Sandstone in new money) in fact [/pedant] I think that what they'd have to be very aware of now is the sheer volume of groundwater in the rock pore spaces before embarking on drilling. Are you going to upset the stability and balance by the very act of drilling for rock bolts? It was very different in the 1990s, much drier. Pore water pressure is a factor, but NR have been getting geotech advice from ?Camborne School of Mines. If drilling a hole was going to make a significant difference I think it would have fallen down on its own already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) [pedant]New Red Sandstone (or Sherwood Sandstone in new money) in fact [/pedant] If the cliffs were in Old Red we wouldn't have them falling down as they are Pore water pressure is a factor, but NR have been getting geotech advice from ?Camborne School of Mines. If drilling a hole was going to make a significant difference I think it would have fallen down on its own already. It still is, looking at CK's posts. They'd brought much of it down as a clay/sand slurry to get where they are now. Edited April 10, 2014 by Coombe Barton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 10, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 10, 2014 In BR days there was a geotechnics group at Derby I think, acting as consultants across the entire system, of course. No doubt disappeared in the early stages of privatisation. And in the late '80s, the Southern Civil Engineer employed a firm (called Can?) to spray concrete on the cliffs west of Brighton station. In the same era there was a consultant's study on the White Cliffs of Dover, which concluded it was, despite de-watering and other measures, inevitable that they would fall down at some stage to the extent of rendering the railway impassable. A wag suggested that instead of taking the precautionary measures, they should invest the money with Joe Coral at long odds, knowing when it happened there would be a big win to pay for remedial works! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Just through, the 12.29 Parkandillack to Exeter Riverside Yard, with a definite toot for the webcam! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 In BR days there was a geotechnics group at Derby I think, acting as consultants across the entire system, of course. No doubt disappeared in the early stages of privatisation. And in the late '80s, the Southern Civil Engineer employed a firm (called Can?) to spray concrete on the cliffs west of Brighton station. In the same era there was a consultant's study on the White Cliffs of Dover, which concluded it was, despite de-watering and other measures, inevitable that they would fall down at some stage to the extent of rendering the railway impassable. A wag suggested that instead of taking the precautionary measures, they should invest the money with Joe Coral at long odds, knowing when it happened there would be a big win to pay for remedial works! There used to be a Mk 1 coach that lived on the siding at Folkestone Warren branded 'Soil Mechanics' which presumably served as accommodation for the geotechnicians. There was a very big fall during WW1, which severed the line between Dover and Folkestone for a considerable time. In recent years, Network Rail has contracted out geotechnical services; brother-in-law covered the Bristol- Swindon- Gloucester area for a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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