Potter Bar looking toward the station following the train crash in May 2002. Note the Damaged Bridge Girder.
Potter Bar looking away from the station following the train crash in May 2002. Note the damaged girder in the right of the photograph.
Potter Bar high street - bridge being delivered just missing the bollards and traffic lights.
Bridge being delivered into the car park .
Bridge being built up on stillages in the car park.
Steel stillages, stools and hardwood navi mats carrying the laod from the bridge.
Potters Bar looking toward the bridge. Temporary works installed to carry the bridge enclosed in a timber hoarding.
Inside the hoarding looking toward the damaged Girders .
May Gurney site office in the Railway Car park - Simon Boddy at the office door .
Bridge being put together in the Yard.
View on the existing bridge - Cables passing over the bridge have been diverted - wish it was always this easy nice of the S&T boys to be interested.
Black top over laid over the existing road surface on polythene sheeting to provide a level running road for the SPMT's.
Advanced warning signs put up a week in advance. Diversion route advertised on the radio - including David Millar on the Local Radio
"High winds" gale force winds caused a tree next to the bridge to be cut down in the possession also during the possession bearing stiffeners were added to the outside of the bridge (Britons Fabricators fitted the stiffeners Carl Powell) - Setting out undertaken by David Millar.
Start of the possession - Road closure.
Temporary works being taken apart and removed for storage .
Thermic lance being used from a Scissor lift to cut free the existing bridge from the bearings .
New structure jacked up to level with the bridge on the move.
Ian Watson - Agent during the possession looking after the bridge removal .
WA Developments - lifting out track in panels clearing the bridge .
Tandem lifted with two RRV machines lifting setting aside the track panel on the platform.
New bridge being lifted and moved - the bridge passing the site office .
The new bridge in the fog being moved up the high street in Potters Bar.
New Bridge in the Fog. Second SPMT unit being set up ready to take the old structure out.
Excavation in progress on the deck ballast being removed ready fro bridge deck removal .
Cut in the web with top doubler plate - fitted out by Britons Fabricators - Carl Powell .
Existing structure being jacked free of the abutments - following removal of the deck ballast .
New structure sat in the middle of the high street - I love Civil Engineering !! .
Existing structure on the move up the high street - Ian Watson Central . Note the stiffeners set above the pick up points on the steel work
View on the climbing jacks as the deck is jacked down in the high street - Jenga Blocks .
Existing structure being moved up the hill in to the car park.
Existing Bridge jacked down onto temporary stillages with the SPMT's being lifted and cleared away .
New structure on route down the main road in Potters Bar .
"Natural Born Drillers" honestly !! doing the drilling for the holding down bolts.
Track panel on the platform - ready for reinstallation .
David Millar - setting out the drilling holes and levelling the abutment.
Bridge installed overnight landed on the steel bearing plates - being opened by a member of the local public.
SPMT units being loaded away as the demolition company equipment being brought to site on low loadeds.
RRV fitted out with a tamping bank fitted - track panel clamped .
Track being jacked and aligned - with the tamping bank compacting the ballast .
Welds being undertaken to the track joints.
Post possession the bridge deck with the track open - work progressing on the finishing works.
New bridge in place after the possession - batters require levelled and cleared up.
Trains running over the new bridge - Vortock fence set up to enable the brick work walls to be completed .
New bridge in place - site visit 5 years later the bridge still looks good .
View on the bridge in 2008 looking good .
View out the train on the way to London - Looking good from a passing train.
