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View on North bridge prior to works starting on the new bridge.
View looking toward the proposed south abutment of the New North Bridge.
View on the North proposed abutment location - Note the wide access between the fence and the wall.
Work started on the North abutment - works in progress excavation in progress.
Bulk dig to the North abutment - terrace greated for crane platform.
Drilling and groutin in progress to the North Abutment.
Grouting being undertaken to the voids in the North abutment.
Drilling and grouting in progress on the North abutment.
Gas main being diverted on the slip road.
Gas main valve connecetion being connected up and encased in concrete.
Works in progress at track level - S&T Trough route diverted to enable the abutment construction.
Martello piling carrying out the pile installation on the North abutment.
Excavation to the South abutment - view on the fence at track level and S&T.
Martello piling lifting and installing piles using a mini crane.
Vario -Guard installed up the Jun 4 Slip road.
Excavation being undertaken behind the barrier - note the redundant gas main in the excavation.
Excavation in progress - ramp created down to track level.
North abutment piles installed ready for digging out.
Southern abutment - coal strips in the dig require removed.
View on the excavation for both the North bidge and Moor road.
Piles being broken down using a pile breaker.
Piles broken down - blinded and steel being fixed.
Coal measures being excavated out and removed.
Coal measures being excavated out - the seam had been worked to the fill was also excavated and filled with concrete.
North abutment steel reinforcement being fixed with Forwork being installed to the base.
Southern abutment fully excavated - water filled - works put on hold until the new year.
North abutment blackjacked and backfilled with 6N.
Base blinded with concrete - steel fixing started to the base.
Steel fixed to the base - formwork base shutters moved round form the North ready for reuse. crane set up ready for lifting.
South base being concreted - concrete pump on the crane platform.
Base cast and being backfilled - steel reinforcement being set up for fixing the abutment wall.
North abutment - formwork set up - wingwalls being cast with a concrete pump.
Wingwall cast with formwork being set up for the main wall pour.
All the work being undertaken during normal working - Scaffold being erected to enable steel fixing.
Heidi Simpson setting out bearing plinths on the abutments.
North abutment being cast during normal working with a concrete pump.
View on the abutment construction both well underway.
North abutment & wingwalls cast - concrete finishing in progress.
Southern abutment - formwork being set up using a mobile carne.
Henry and Heidi - setting up the bridge bearings on the North abutment.
Scaffold removed from the North abutment - backfilling in progress.
Concrete completed - Mobile crane lifting out formwork.
South abutment - bearing blinths cast with pockets prepared for bearings.
North abutment - backfilling being undertaken ready for the crane to being rigged for lifting.
Beams on site ready for lifting - they are on site in braced pairs.
Steel beams erected in possession with GRP installed to two of the sets.
View along the girders - tape and sealing strip installed along the top flange for fixing the GRP panels.
Bridge beam lifted in and set up on the bearings. Note the red transit brackets.
View from below the beams - note the GRP panels follow the curve and are set with a gap to follow the curve.
GRP - panels - supplied by EMJ fixed in place (by lift reinforcement bars) panels installed during possession.
Multi-forms being erected - corner units installed during normal working.
Multiforms - installed during possession.
View on the East parapet with multiforms installed work progressing on the deck during normal working.
Soffit of the diapraghm installed - steel fixing in progress.
Formwork installed to the inside face of the diapraghm. - steel fixed being fixed.
Works in progress to the gabion baskets infill behind the new stone infill walls.
Stone walls being installed infront of the Gabion baskets.
The multiforms were faced up with good quality ply - steel fixing in progress.
Diapraghm cast ready for GRP to installed.
View on the North abutment - with scaffold ereceted for access to the bearing shelf.
Steel fixing at deck level.
Deck reinforcement set up on the deck - Note the H4a bolts set up on the parapet.
Bridge deck being cast during normal working (yes the trains were running)
Deck being cast with the concerte pump on the Southern abutment.
Deck being cast during normal working.
Parapets being set up for casting - note the H4A bolt clusters.
Parapet - formwork shutters being set up the design allowed for timbers fixing onto the parapet.
Parapet set up ready fro concrete.
Parapet cast and stripped out ready for concrete finishing.
South abutment formwork being lifted into place.
Gallery soffit falsework being installed.
Soffit of the Deck nib set up with plywood - steel being fixed to the deck end.
SGB - steel lifting frame - combi-safe fence being installed along the parapets.
Railway possession - self erecting tower crane being used to lift out the multiforms.
Multiforms removed over the central deck - South side not removed as the parapets had not been completed.
View on the bridge deck after casting and muliform removal.
South deck nib set up for casting.
North abutment gallery nib being cast by Swords.
Brick access manhole installed - Stirling lloyd spray waterproofing to the abutments ready for backfilling.
South abutment - access manhole being constructed with blue bricks.
South abutment - parapets completed and multiform/scaffold removed - backfilling in progress.
Frost on the deck - H4a parpets being erected on the deck.
South abutment approach retaining wall base being set up on blinding ready for formwork.
Approach base - set up with steel fixed in the wall - Formwork set and base cast.
Retaining wall cast.
Bridge deck spray waterproofed and tack coated - Note the access slab cast on top of the blue brick manhole.
View on the East parapet - note the new wall built on the South abutment.
Sand carpet laid on the bridge deck - note the timbers fixed into the joints.
Run on slabs formed on the approach to the structure. The run on slabs were formed free had by excavator.
Construction of the road formation and kerbs on the North abutment.
Surfacing being laid over the bridge - H4a installed but not sheeted. Footpaths being concreted.
USL installing bridge expansion joints.
View on the new bridge.
48hr Week end blockage swapped the traffic over onto the new road alignment.
View on the bridge with the new road alignment.
View on the bridge showing the parapets fully sheeted in - grass being cut for full opening.
Completed junction 4 open to traffic.
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