Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Still a mystery

In yesterdays Times Robert Crampton rather wickedly (& with his tongue in his cheek) dubbed the response of the ordinary middle aged man having to face something more physically challenging than usual in his daily routine as a fantasy of “the possibility male redemption through the medium of very bad weather.”

But there is cockle-warming news of real initiative in the Railnews blog: there is going to be a new temporary railway station at Workington in Cumbria, only half a mile from the existing station, on the other side of the river - the only other way to travel that half mile at the moment involves a 40 mile round trip because the road bridges have been destroyed by the floods. the existing rail bridge has survived.

The new station is expected to be ready by the weekend.

Shows what can be done by romantic but practical engineers when freed from all the usual red tape & politicking of site identification, planning, consultation etc etc.

What I want to know though, is how they are going to build platforms in such a short time? I guess that as temporary structures some sort of scaffolding will be deemed sufficient



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