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Updated: 08/07/2008

 

 

Engineering Work on the

Ribble Valley Line

 

Above left & right

Track Replacement at Low Moor Crossing, Clitheroe,

on Sunday 11th November 2007

 

Photos: David Butterworth

Freckleton Street Bridge

Replacement

Below are photos of the various ongoing stages of this major engineering undertaking in Blackburn

Hopefully additional photographs will become available as the work proceeds towards completion in May 2008 (?)

 

Stone-Blower at Low Moor Crossing, Clitheroe,

on Sunday 11th November 2007

Photo: David Butterworth

 

Below:

Work being undertaken on Sunday 9 December 2007

Photos courtesy: S. Clarke

Above photos courtesy: W. Briggs, M. Cliffe, B. Haworth

 

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Grand Opening of the bridge

on Friday 27th June 2008,

which was then renamed the

"Alfred Wainwright Bridge"

Opening ceremony, cutting the ribbon at 11.40 a.m.

(L-R) Cllr Alan Cottam, Rt Hon Jack Straw PC MP, Cllr Mohammed Khan (BwD Mayor), watched by Cllr Colin Berry (Council Leader), and The Mayoress.

In the background are Year 6 pupils from St Anne's Junior School ready to cycle across the bridge.

Opening Ceremony photos: W.Briggs

 

 

Below left:

The first public service vehicle to cross the bridge at 12.03.

 

Below right:

The scene at 13.17

with the bridge being well used by general traffic.

 

Other Engineering Work:

 

Overbridge 12 between Rishton tunnel and Rishton station - replacement of decking

Standen Hey occupation bridge (above Holgates cutting)

Shows the remains of the old bridge at Standen Hey now having been removed

Another shot of the missing bridge at Standen Hey

 

Above left and right:

Standen Hey

Note the unusual construction technique,

which is clearly visible!

 

Steel Road and Encampment at Standen Hey

Photos at Standen Hey and Rishton (below)

courtesy S. Clarke

Above: Left and right

Overbridge 12 at Rishton

Note the engineering brick being used for the parapet construction

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