The following pictures have been received from Network Rail - they are their Copyright. Our sincere appreciation to Network Rail and Tim Maddocks in particular for making these pictures of another of their work sites available to us. As can be seen from the pictures which follow this is another massive undertaking in which they are able to make use of the reduced traffic at this time of the Dawlish upheaval to close the lines between Newton Abbot and Totnes/Paignton.
With all four lines, that is the two to and from Paignton and the two to and from Totnes and beyond cut and removed, a massive trench has been excavated to facilitate the installation of the culvert. Signalling cables supported in flexible ducting above the site. 19th March 2014 Copyright Network Rail with their permission.
The first of the culvert castings is lowered into place.19th March 2014 Copyright Network Rail with their permission.
The second culvert casting is positioned ready for lowering. 19th March 2014 Copyright Network Rail with their permission.
With several culvert castings in position more follow. 19th March 2014 Copyright Network Rail with their permission.
The castings have now reached the far side of the embankment and the embankment is reinstated around and above the new culvert. Picture Copyright Network Rail with their permission. 19th March 2014
Looking through one of the culvert passages. Picture Copyright Network Rail with their permission.
Engineers gave scale to one of the portals of the new culvert. Picture Copyright Network Rail with their permission. 19th March 2014
Looking towards the former Aller Junction over a temporary roadway laid across the four tracks. Copyright Network Rail with their permission. 19th March 2014
The cut points of the rails marked on the sleeper. Copyright Network Rail with their permission. 19th March 2014
Reinstatement of the trackbed. Copyright Network Rail with their permission. 19th March 2014
A general view of the worksite. 19th March 2014 Copyright Network Rail with their permission.