Existing Hillidge bridge - old redundant piers carried an old station previously demolished.
Directional drill being used to divert a global crossing cable down to track level.
View at track level with the break through point of the directional drill through the wall. Note the fence installed at track level.
Hillidge road view on the existing deck with safety barriers installed.
Pedestrian fence installed on the bridge to enable the parapet to be removed.
Works to remove the existing parapet started.
Sheet piles on site - Hammer being fitted to the 360 excavator.
South abutment - Top frame installed ready for the sheet piles to be installed.
View on the
Sheet piles being installing on the South Abutment - Andy Dyer (Agent)
Works progressing on the North Abutment to remove the corner Parapet.
Sheet piles being lifted into place and driven by the excavator mounted hammer.
Excavation being undertaken by small mini-digger.
North abutment dig- top of the abutment being cleared ready for pile installation.
RMD - Push Pull props installed as a brace for the abutment wall.
North abutment sheet piles being installed - Declan O'shay Foreman.
Works progressing on both abutments at once.
North abutment sheet piles being installed with vibro hammer.
Scaffold crash deck being installed on between the south abutment and the pier.
North abutment sheet piles installed - the corner cut due to the tight cables on the corner.
Excavator with vertical extending boom and clam shell bucket ready for digging.
View on the dig -looking at the back of the abutment wall - note teh frames installed.
Dig progressing on the south Abutment.
Grab excavator digging out the southern abutment.
Scaffold being installed as a crash deck between the abutment and the leaf pier.
Concrete blinding being placed at the bottom of the dig following inspection of formation.
South abutment - frames installed - note all the frames are three sided using the existing stone face as the fourth face.
North Abutment being excavated out with the grab excavator.
North abutment dig progressed - blinding concrete placed at the bottom of the dig.
Steel Reinforcement fixed in the bottom of the excavation - Leeds City Council Mike checking the works.
Concrete being placed to the abutment lift by excavator.
1st lift pour cast - spray retarder applied - this will be jet washed off after 24hr to provide a suitable mechanical key.
South abutment - Back blinding with No fines concrete.
View at track level - fencing erected up to the bridge on the south side.
Reinforcement lifts progressing up to the abutment level.
Taliban building the pre-cast units in the Factory in Bolton.
RMD Temporary works being formed in the main yard - by Mike Sleigh.
Phase I Temporary works installed during possession - fixed down with grout.
Steel reinforcement fixed on the abutments (North abutment)
North and south abutment cast - Phase I temporary works installed - ready for precast units.
Pre-cast concrete units being lifted into place.
Five units installed in the possession - Network Rail agreed that the third edge unit can be lifted in during normal working.
Post possession pre-cst units installed. Final south East parapet unit being lifted into pace during normal working. (yes with the trains running)
Reinforcement being fixed on the bridge deck - note the ducts installed for the electricity cables.
Two pairs of 3 phase cable installed in the bridge deck.
Cables run over the bridge - vandals try to steel the cables.
Cables replaced and jointed up.
Concrete being placed to the phase I deck section.
Concrete being placed to the bridge deck -using a concrete pump - during normal working.
Phase I works cast - pedestrian walkway being shifted over to allow access for moving the services.
New Hoarding being installed on the bridge deck - services being diverted onto the section of bridge.
View on the backface of the new hoarding.
New walkway being installed for pedestrians running over the bridge - services being diverted.
New ramp created to allow access for heavy plant to track side during the demolition. Armac on site ready to start - all services lifted and shifted - new pedestrian access open over the bridge.
Armac starting to remove the surfacing from the bridge deck.
Surfacing being removed from the bridge deck.
Deck cleared of surfacing from the bridge deck.
Christmas day bridge deck demolition in progress - looking up the track. Armac clearing up at track level.
Armac clearing up - navi-mats put down on the track - Phase I Hoarding in place.
View on East parapet during the demolition.
Post Christmas - works ready to start on Phase II.
Phase II - sheet piles being installed with a excavator mounted hammer.
Phase II - South abutment frames and props being installed.
North abutment - sheet piles being installed - frames and props ready to install.
South abutment - reinforcement being fixed at the back of the abutment.
North abutment sheets being driven - frames and props being set to support the sheet pile wall.
Snow hits site - North abutment props installed to enable excavation to be undertaken to the abutment.
Scaffold crash deck installed infront of the abutment - props and frames installed.
Crash deck installed for access - top of the existing pier repaired ready for temporary works installation.
View across the top of the existing pier.
Phase II temporary works being installed during the possession.
Phase II - temporary works installed - grouted and set to level.
Ancon MTB couplers being set up for rebar installation.
Crane platform created ready for main deck section installation.
Winterlift - crane - set up in possession ready for lifting.
Taiban bridge parapet section being prepared for lifting in possession.
Bridge Edge parapet being installed on the North Abutment.
At the end of the possession - bridge deck units being lifted and set in place.
Following the second possession all the bridge deck units are set and installed.
View on the temporay works - with the deck units landed.
At the abutment the bridge deck units sat and levelled on grout. Steel reinforcement - being delivered to site ready for fixing.
View on the underside of the South West abutment - concrete cover exposed steel.
500T Crane - set up ready to switch the defective deck unit.
Bridge deck unit - ready for swapping over the deck unit.
Deck steel reinforcement - being installed during normal working.
Steel reinforcement being lifted and laid out bridge deck.
Steel duct installed across the bridge - Steel reinforcement being fixed to the bridge deck.
Formwork being set up on the south abutment - scaffold access on the deck. Phase II concrete being placed by concrete pump - during normal working. Sword Operatives placing concrete to the bridge deck - screed being used to level the deck.
Concrete deck cast to level and tied into phase I.
Bridge deck being power floated.
Temporary access created onto the bridge deck - works progressing on the North and South West Parapet corners.
Once the bridge deck reaches a suitable strength - the temporary works was removed - the final section being removed during a night shift.
Corner Pillaster with H4a bolt clusters installed - steel fixed ready for formwork.
North West pillaster cast with bolt clusters ready to take H4A parapet rails.
View on the West parapet - with the tempoaray works fully removed from the existing piers below.
New structure now fully self supporting from abutment to abutment.
Armac lifting down excavators to track level ready to start the pier demolition.
Armac carry out demolition of the redundant leaf piers.
Work being carried out during normal working to clear rubble for the side spans.
Crane lifting the excavators across the track to the North abutment.
Works progressing in possession- Armac breaking down the pier feeding the long reach excavtor at deck level.
At the end of the possession the excavators were lifted out by crane.
Rubble for the bridge pier piled up on the bridge deck - ready for clearing up.
View at track level.
Stirling Lloyd applying spray waterproofing on the bridge deck.
Bridge deck partially sprayed.
View on the West half of the deck waterproofed and tack coated.
Western half of the deck - sand carpet laid ready for Kerbs.
Kerbs being installed over the bridge deck - H4A parapet being fixed. West Footpath completed - new temporary pedestrian route being created over the deck.
Pedestrian hoarding taken down form the East side of the bridge deck.
View on the West Parapet - H4a. Scaffold being ereceted on the North East corner pillaster.
South East pillaster - Formwork erected - scaffold access set up for concrete.
East side of the bridge deck being waterproofed by Stirling Lloyd.
West side of the deck waterproofed and tack coated.
East side of the bridge deck - sand carpet laid on the deck - services lifted out of the way ready to enable the sand carpet.
View on the abutments being made good.
Ducting set up on the bridge deck - services being set up.
V&G installing the parapet H4a rails on the East side of the bridge.
New walls being constucted to tie into the bridge.
Kerbs and walls being installed on the North East corner of the bridge.
East Footpath being infilled with concrete - Note sevices being covered with concrete.
Steel reinforement mesh installed over the first concrete lift ready for concrete top up.
Footpaths being filled up on the approach.
Surfacing being laid on the bridge deck.
Bridge deck being made ready for opening. East footpath surfaced.
Cop units and sheets being installed to the Parapets.
View on the completed bridge fully open to traffic.
