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Overground woes extended - two longer closures planned
Depressing reading for those of us who commute on it:
http://www.cityam.com/269170/gospel-oak-barking-electrification-works-were-meant-finish
http://www.cityam.com/269170/gospel-oak-barking-electrification-works-were-meant-finish
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I'm a very occasional user of the line. The electrification is sad, but no doubt necessary. I used to like the old diesels in the 1990s that chugged and purred along so mellifluously. Standing on the platform at Crouch Hill, it used to sound as if an ice-cream van was coming down the line.
Still, it's a strange cock-up about the structures intended to hold the overhead lines. Not the sort of mistake you'd expect an engineer (or team of engineers) to make. They're engineers, after all. You know; all about details, precision, and checking and double-checking things. Followers of St Exactitude-the-pedantic. Engineers! Not poets, postmen, or pornographers. Engineers! People who do things by the book, always put the handbrake on, and even get out of the shower to take a pee.
So I wonder if the management overseeing (and presumably coordinating) the project lack the requisite engineering knowledge or thoroughness.
So it's not just the engineering: Can't help feeling there’s no-one in this project who can plan the sort of social to which gardener-joe referred.
@gardener-joe From the BGORUG Newsletter (http://barking-gospeloak.org.uk/documents/20170728_newsletter.pdf):
"One job that can be put off is the raising of the road bridge at Crouch Hill station. Network Rail has decided the 25,000 volts overhead cables can safely pass under it without having to jack the bridge up by 300mm, although the work will still have to be done sometime later."