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  • Footbridge of the future?

    Footbridge of the future?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A JOINT entry by Danish and Czech designers beat more than 120 designs from 19 countries to triumph in a competition to create a new generation of passenger footbridges for British stations. Gottlieb Paludan Architects, of Denmark, and Strasky, Husty and Partners, of the Czech Republic, presented a bridge which was judged to have “convincingly…

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  • Light at the end of the tunnel in Sevenoaks

    Light at the end of the tunnel in Sevenoaks

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A TWO-YEAR, £21million programme of repairs and improvements to Sevenoaks Tunnel in Kent is almost complete. The 150-year-old tunnel is one of the longest in southern England and has long been a source of delays because of its poor condition and flooding, caused by inadequate drainage. However, Network Rail has installed new drainage systems since…

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  • Norfolk Broads swing bridges to be replaced by Network Rail?

    Norfolk Broads swing bridges to be replaced by Network Rail?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NETWORK Rail is considering a bid for Government funding to replace four elderly swing bridges on the Norfolk Broads. The bridges at Oulton Broad, Reedham, Somerleyton and Trowse are considered increasingly unreliable, especially in hot weather, and NR does not now open them to water traffic if it suspects they may not close correctly afterwards.…

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  • NR hails success of £148million festive engineering programme

    NR hails success of £148million festive engineering programme

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    Sam Hewitt

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    MORE than 330 engineering projects took place across Britain over the Christmas and New Year holidays in a £148million programme delivered by 25,000 Network Rail staff and contractors. Projects ranged from major blockades running right through the holiday period to smaller interventions designed to repair or upgrade the railway at important locations. Among the larger…

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