The news is very good for Edenbridge Town station. Network Rail have now completed the new platforms and the first trains used the platforms yesterday.
At Crowborough, Network Rail are in the middle of repainting the station. A bicycle rack has been put up outside the station enabling more bicycles to be stored. All the fences have been put up along with the departure boards which are not working yet. Also the signs saying" Crowborough" are up. There will be some more engineering works from 2nd July to the 3rd. Below left the new bicycle rack at Crowborough. Below right the new platforms which are nearly completed.
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The Tubular bridge was built to carry the North Wales main line over the River Conwy. It was built to a design made by William Fairbairn. Before Robert Stephenson was made engineer, the bridge would have probably been built by Thomas Telford who would have built a suspension bridge, but suspension bridges are not robust enough for carrying trains, as Robert understood. In 1846 the building of the bridge started. Engineering experiments were conducted on a large scale by William Fairbairn and scale models were tested at Mill Wall works. A wrought iron box girder was invented. Also a cellular girder was refined so that it could hold 2.4 times the capacity. Steam powered hydraulic engines lifted the girders into place. The architect was Francis Thompson who designed the turrets and arrow slits. The iron work was done by Eastern and Amos and the contractor was a William Evans. The Tubular bridge was officially opened in 1849 having been completed in 1848. Reinforcements were added in 1899. Around a thousand other bridges used Robert Stephenson's structure for the tubular bridge including the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits which burnt down in 1970. Above: The bridge on the right is Robert Stephenson' s tubular bridge.
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