Glorious NSE Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Utility companies normally wait till the week after it's been tarmac'd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) At least they hadn't put the tarmac down first as seem to normally happen! edit Ha someone beat me to it!! Edited April 17, 2014 by TheQ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2014 Just been looking on Google StreetView at the washout site and am struck by how flimsy the fencing was between the road and the drop onto the tracks, looks like it would struggle to stop a child on a pushbike never mind a car LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Thanks for all the appreciative comments just enjoying myself sea much calmer this morning most of the people I spoke to at Dawlish town beach this am were visitors who came to see the results & scene of the "crime" sorry disaster 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 And now with some black snakey things Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) 13.03 trench dug bottom lined with pipe bedding, pea gravel? fine chippings? not sure what they use these days when stopped at traffic lights earlier on saw a lorry being unloaded of some sort of paving slabs or kerbing cold not see clearly which BUT warning Dawlish is BUSY when I went through the lights later 12.30? the traffic from Exeter direction was back past the caravan park at home commute time it could well be be back past Sainsburys EDIT;- John, did you notice at what time you did your cam capture? they seem to have rattled that bottom layer in muy-Pronto Edited April 17, 2014 by Granitechops 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Those long black sinuous things appear to be "PVC Slotted Drainage Pipes", correct? Don, thanks for your informative and detailed photos over the past week or so... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I think this is work on the down platform, which I observed when my Down Voyager stopped there on Monday evening. Not sure about the background yet, I don't think it's 'our' work as such... If a formal complaint has been raised, best let that take its course. CK, the noise must have been over the top for the houses that are close by. It is an outfit who have set up camp in the front car park. Up platform NA end was being jet cleaned on Tuesday. The down NA end had already been painted on Tuesday, so I guess they are working towards the sea ends of both platforms. I suppose they work on the same system as 'utility' companies,digging holes in newly laid roads. I would have thought this company were probably not involved at Dawlish and could have spared a man and a compressor to work at Teignmouth in daylight hours in the last 2 months when free access to the platforms was available apart from the occasional yellow cagey thingy, yellow diggery thingy etc. Perhaps planning these things is not as easy as I think and this is the only way it could be done. LE ps. I hope the jet washer doesnt get too near the footbridge as the rust is doing a fine job presently! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2014 Those long black sinuous things appear to be "PVC Slotted Drainage Pipes", correct? What's happening now is that ducts are being installed in the trench, to enable services to be reconnected. Utility companies will come in to do their bit next week, after Easter. It may look odd to see the trench being dug in this way, but this is how it was planned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Those long black sinuous things appear to be "PVC Slotted Drainage Pipes", correct? Don, thanks for your informative and detailed photos over the past week or so... Best, Pete. You could well be right Pete I was thinking maybe ducting for small diam services, water/gas/phone But I guess they each like access to their own ducts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) Don Mine was taken shortly before I posted here - so just before 1. Edited April 17, 2014 by Coombe Barton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 (edited) the best display the sea did today So I could actually go down the breakwater top photo the shingle/rocks that was moved from under the viaduct to behind (in front?) of the tea bar The seaward wall of which ( built in 1950ish) is of Blue enginneers brick & 3 feet thick the outside laid as stretchers bonded to the inside, laid in a heringbone pattern for strength broken & displaced slipway surface ( no sure which storm) old masonry old masonry pediment? debris thrown up under platform overhang 2 workers returning from working on the seawall complete with safety harness Edit;- of course now these guys have to walk further from were ever on the seawall they are working back down thro the security barrier down under the viaduct & then back up through the car park the full length of the station doubt they need the Gym!!! Edited April 17, 2014 by Granitechops 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 looks like another load of bedding arrived Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Dont know what the hold up was with the lorry but now we have action further trench work with what looks like bedding on that lorry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 16.24 Pipe in the trench & the way its laid,soon to have a companion 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 That pipe should be orange ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I have a feeling that the webcam is now only updating every 30 mins?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 16.24 & the way its laid,soon to have a companion Apparently not Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granitechops Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 17.09 trying to follow the logic here pipe laid to one side far end filled over with bedding medium & then top cover back over ? is the far operative pushing the pipe into the middle, no probably not ????? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2014 And now for a slightly sour note: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-27055780 A seemingly ludicrous system of a 'money-go-round'. Just quite why NR can be held responsible for the damage caused by extraordinary severe weather....but hey-ho, this is the modern railway nowadays I suppose....and all after a herculean job done by NR and the 'orange army'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 The biggest problem is who is going to pay for it, namely the rail users, Network Rail will either recoup these monies in the future by increasing the costs of those using it or divert monies earmarked for other improvements to the infrastructure. The more I see of our modern railway set up the more ludicrous it seems. Why cannot we have one company who owns the whole system (rolling stock, track and real-estate). No wonder our system is so expensive to operate, too many companies owning their own little part of the system taking out millions to pay their own shareholders. Are we not trying to streamline public services to stop all this added bureaucracy and cost for better taxpayer value!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2014 The pipes seen being laid are drainage/sewer pipes. Utility pipes are colour coded, yellow=gas blue=water green=telecoms black=sewers/drains, I'm not sure what colour is used for electric now, red? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted April 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2014 from ROSPA Yes electricity is Red, In England street lighting and traffic lights should be Orange, In Scotland purple, Grey or white telecoms, Green Cable tv and some telecoms, which begs the question why Rospa don't list the purple used for the traffic cameras and matrix signs on the motorways and Major A roads I wonder if the railways use any of this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 The colours have changed over the years - black was electric, purple cable tv, iirc. Then there was plastic tape laid over the electric cables, hopefully if a mechacanical excavator was being used, it would rip up the tape, before hitting the cable, but then when they started using contractors, the tape ended up all over the place, even as dpc in houses. Trenches were stepped, different levels for different services. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Teignmouth sea wall, damage to bottom shelf Teignmouth sea wall, damage to bottom shelf Teignmouth sea wall, damage to bottom shelf Teignmouth sea wall, damage to bottom shelf Sprey Point incline (Teignmouth side) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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