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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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76 of 1120  Tue 27th Mar 2012 7:01pm  

Hi all Wave A pic recorded yesterday when I was aboard the Nuneaton flyer, travelling at nearly twenty five miles per hour across Coundon Crossing. Wave
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dutchman
Spon End
77 of 1120  Wed 28th Mar 2012 11:05pm  

There was a double-headed container freight on the same line tonight, a Freightliner 66 and a rare (for these parts) DRS 66. I don't think the line will be with us much longer due to a shocking lack of maintenance in recent years. Sad
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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78 of 1120  Thu 29th Mar 2012 8:48am  

Hi Dutchman. Maybe the tide will turn. The station inspector at Coventry showed me the plans, which they have received for the first time for the new stations on that route. There has been talk about new stations for over a decade but this is the first time that civil plans have appeared for staff to see. We wait in hope, Dutchman. Wave
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dutchman
Spon End
79 of 1120  Thu 29th Mar 2012 3:07pm  

Do the plans include new bridges, embankments and viaducts Philip as otherwise they will be pointless? The existing ones have been left to literally rot and they won't be able to handle the load much longer. I think there's a speed restriction already in force? To replace them will cost billions and I can't see any future government agreeing to fund that.
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Midland Red

80 of 1120  Thu 29th Mar 2012 5:10pm  

Forgive me if I'm wrong (not unusual) but I thought that plans had at last been approved for a station at the Ricoh Arena and and also at Bermuda, plus improvements at Bedworth Oh my
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dutchman
Spon End
81 of 1120  Thu 29th Mar 2012 5:21pm  

What's the point of a new station when the bridges, viaducts and embankments which support the line are crumbling away?
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Midland Red

82 of 1120  Thu 29th Mar 2012 5:32pm  

I assume the £23m includes provision for infrastructure upgrades
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dutchman
Spon End
83 of 1120  Thu 29th Mar 2012 6:12pm  

How do you define 'upgrade'? It's too late to repair the line as the damage has already been done. That leaves a complete rebuild as the only option. I've yet to see any mention of rebuilding the line in any proposal, only for new stations and platforms which will never be used.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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84 of 1120  Fri 30th Mar 2012 6:51pm  

Hi all Wave Talking of infrastructure, this was the state of two lines running through Derby station. They could film gardening club from the site. To think that Derby is the centre of railway engineering excellence in the UK, is it not surprising that they lose orders to overseas companies? Coventry is not so bad, hey! Wave I was aboard the train whilst it was in Derby station. The line nearest me had a loco move along it & I watched the rail sink into the rotten sleepers as it did so. The second line does not look as though it is ever used, but what a sight for a prospective customer.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
Holbrooks
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85 of 1120  Fri 13th Apr 2012 2:20pm  

Hi Neil Wave Yes, its all gone. The only reminder of its former days is the layby siding, east of the new low bridge where the visiting Royal Trains are still parked & serviced. I still have & enjoy a bite & drink at the nearby pub when out that way. On current plans, the new proposed high speed train passes that spot at an elevation of nearly eighty feet off ground level. Some view from the pub! Sad
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Midland Red

86 of 1120  Sun 15th Apr 2012 5:37pm  

Another photo, taken this morning, of the view towards Lythalls Lane bridge from Holbrook Way, showing the location of Three Spires Junction Signal Box (long gone!)
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stevie g
wyken, coventry
87 of 1120  Thu 26th Apr 2012 12:44pm  

As a kid I remember playing on Morris playing fields, there was a signal box by the Swan Lane bridge and many a time the signalman would let us in and watch him at work, was this line only used for Morris Engines or was it main line for anywhere else???? Cheers Cheers Big grin

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dutchman
Spon End
88 of 1120  Thu 26th Apr 2012 2:36pm  

That would have been Bell Green signal box. The line also served Bell Green and Gosford Green goods depots, the Humber works and Royal Ordnance Factory.
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Greg
Coventry
89 of 1120  Thu 26th Apr 2012 10:37pm  

This would have been the later site of Wards of Bell Green (Builders merchants) by the Stoney Stanton Rd/ Bell Green Rd bridge
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stevie g
wyken, coventry
90 of 1120  Fri 27th Apr 2012 7:41am  

I was talking about the end of playing field where Stoke Heath meets Swan Lane just before the bridge, but do remember the Bell Green box. Cheers Cheers Big grin
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