Interesting little project

[Greyman 31,842]

This is going on about a mile or so from me, the main Bristol to Birmingham railway has been removed to reinstate the old stroudwater canal,, I should be able to travel through this tunnel within the next two years all being good, big project, all the castings were made on site and they have the biggest mobile crane in England lifting them in, been working round the clock through Christmas

 

[Greb147 6,810]

We just changed an old iron bridge at Christmas, pulled it off by the skin of the teeth as they miscalculated the weight of it, we had a 800 tonne crane for the job and it only just pulled the lift off. 

We could hear the crane driver on the radio to the banksman, he was calling our company every cnut under the sun, funny as fcuk. 

[Greyman 31,842]

Just been and had a quick look at this and must just rectify something, it’s not the biggest mobile crane, it’s the biggest mobile crane on rails, can see it from a fair distance, funny thing about this project it’s been on going for years and has made very little progress, couple of volunteers with spades, but a couple of years ago the government started looking at ways to get water to London as they are running low and it turned out the cheapest and easiest way to do it by a considerable margin was to open the old canal that used to link the Severn to the Thames, and over night all those obstacles that have stopped this project become a reality are just being swept away and it’s not being funded by the old lady’s selling duck food for 10p a cup at the canal centre down the road, the a38 was another major obstacle that was never going to be overcome by the trust and look what just turned up during lockdown, quite surprising what can be done when the right people need the result 

 

[Greyman 31,842]

Fairplay all done over Christmas, first train over,  canal underpass in place