Lighting Services from Bristol conducted a trial to ensure that the 'essential' or 'basic' lighting being proposed for the tunnels would work in practice. United Visual Artists from London also visited to look at the tunnel environment and the refuges into which the feature lighting will be incorporated. The two teams discussed technical issues on how the two systems would work together. Select the image for a video report on the event.Thursday, 1 March 2012
Lighting trial in Combe Down Tunnel – 29 Feb 12
Lighting Services from Bristol conducted a trial to ensure that the 'essential' or 'basic' lighting being proposed for the tunnels would work in practice. United Visual Artists from London also visited to look at the tunnel environment and the refuges into which the feature lighting will be incorporated. The two teams discussed technical issues on how the two systems would work together. Select the image for a video report on the event.
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Bridge earthworks at Monksdale Road
With work recently started on the earthworks for the new bridge to be installed at Monksdale Road, we take a look at what’s happening, including a chat with Sustrans Project Manager, Paddy Tully, and Hydrock Site Manager, Julian Geer.
Saturday, 30 April 2011
A chat with our Sustrans Project Manager, Paddy Tully
Paddy Tully and Frank Tompson shared an informal chat about the scheme (Just click on the link)
An opportunity for people to see Paddy (pictured left) 'in the flesh' and for him to talk about some of the challenges and achievements alive in the Two Tunnels Project.
(Dome Room in the Guildhall following the 27 Apr 11 Steering Group meeting.)
Monday, 11 April 2011
Recording Devonshire Tunnel before work begins
Photoshoot of the interior (just click on the link)
A brief impromptu record for any tunnel enthusiasts of when Graeme Bickerdike and his lighting engineer Ron visited the inside of Devonshire Tunnel on Thursday 7 April 2011 to make a historical photographic record of its condition before work starts to make it fit for its new purpose in the next few months.
Graeme's Forgotten Relics website contains many excellent records of railway tunnels, cuttings, bridges, viaducts and other structures inheritted from the awesome endeavours of 19th Century railway pioneers.
Pictures from the photo shoot will be available at www.forgottenrelics.co.uk from 1 May 2011.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Route Walk - Saturday 26 March 2011
To mark a mile of surfacing Linear Park from Devonshire Tunnel to the Network Rail Bridge
62 people and a few dogs gathered in the sunshine to travel the 4 miles from the Royal Oak pub in Bath to the Hope and Achor pub in Midford.
The star of the show was Frank Smith. At age 88 Frank had travelled over from Glastonbury to make the walk, and looked as fit as anyone going up the hills!
Possibly the last route walk as completion is now in sight.
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Thursday, 27 January 2011
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