The Third Track Between Northumberland Park And Lea Bridge Stations – 12th June 2018
The third track between Northumberland Park and Lea Bridge stations is substantially complete, as these pictures show.
Now that the track is laid, it becomes apparent, that with a bit of a squeeze, a fourth track could be laid.
Electrification Progress
Progress also seems to be being made with the overhead gantries.
Yet again, there seems to be better performance in electrification, where it is carried out on a new or totally rebuilt line.
This may be only a single track, but it is all new, with no buried Victorian unknowns.
Raising The Bridges
Steel footbridges, that are so numerous in South Wales, are notable by their rarity and where they do exist, they were raised or built to a safe height, when the West Anglia Main Line was electrified in 1969.
This bridge spans both the West Anglia Main Line and the Victoria Line‘s Northumberland Park Depot.
I walked across it in March 2017 and there are some pictures in From Tottenham Hale To Northumberland Park.
The only bridge that could be a problem, is the road bridge at Tottenham Hale station.
It might be possible to squeeze one electrified track underneath.
I suspect methods that will be used on the South Wales Metro, that I wrote about in How Can Discontinuous Electrification Be Handled?, could be used to electrify this section.
At some point, this bridge looks like it will have to be rebuilt.
The Anonymous Widower 
And Hall Farm curve still does not appear!!
Comment by mauricegreed | June 13, 2018 |