I'm actually not sure it is a given that the line will be closed. A lot this sort of work can be carried out overnight. We will see I suppose.







Usually deep sheet piles, or sealed pile walls are used to stop flooding where it falls below the water table. Of course, effective drainage needs to be installed, which is perhaps where Chants Ave has gone wrong.

Hopefully it wont be closed. They've closed it at the moment to replace the swing bridge which is annoying but apparently it'll make the journey time shorter so I'm happy about that as it might mean I'll get to the KC in time for kick-off.



Hopefully they'll get the drainage right or TransPenine will need to put on a replenishment DUKW service.

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Chants Ave has a small pumping station to remove surface water...the problem is though if the drains which the pumps discharge into are already full theres nowhere for the water to go till the backlog subsides...new A63 underpass will also have a pump station fited to remove surface water....this will be piped to the nearest body of water!!!!

They tried to build a tunnel before under the river Hull and then scraped it due to it flooding , There's a bridge there now !. It's going to be chaos in Hull when the A63 upgrade starts .

Your going to jave fun coming home from work Steve

It's something that needs doing , Castle st is joke , You've seen it yourself Mark the chaos you get with just one broken down lorry and the rest of the city stops .

You are correct in most of what you say regarding methodology, however, it will probably take a little less time to run the wire under the bridge. This is due to the fact there is no need to dig/pile foundations for any large steelwork to be landed like there is in 'open' track. The main challenge will be in the design, ensuring minimum wire heights are maintained. I work as an engineer for an overhead line company and most of our guys would know this as standard practice........hopefully





Also, I would expect that the work be planned overnight in line possessions to minimise the disruption to service. This is usually on a Saturday night/early hours of Sunday morning, most of the works go on without any commuters having any idea, apart from when we mess up that is!!

Replacement bus from hull to Hessle. Replacement raft from Hessle to Hull. Simple.

Standee reacts negatively to most things posted on here. Not a personal insult of course.

I'd love to know what the Tindsley Viaduct project came out to in the end!!!!!!!

Depends on the criteria you're using to judge whether the project is value for money, I suppose.



Yours seems to be distance?



I bet you threw a right wobbler over the Crossrail project in London. Costing over £14bn for 100km of track, £140m per km.



The A63 is costing £50m per km.



Using your criteria, which is better value for money?

indeed, the mind can only boggle at how much HST will end up costing per km for example - it will be miles more than the estimates. as well as just the road, there will be tunnels and bridges to build, all pushing the cost up

Crossrail is a little more important than the A63...