5 March (Part 1) - Network Rail passes a major milestone. FM Conway contemplates one
It’s
no use persevering with the Sunday comparison between progress - or lack of it - at Lesnes Abbey park and
Crossrail at nearby Abbey Wood, we may never know when
the work is officially completed. All that can be said is that completion must
be close. It should be well worth a visit if we get a fine Easter.
A better comparison might be how FM Conway’s work on Harrow Manorway stacks up
against the slick operation by Network Rail and Balfour Beatty at the railway station.
Today the last bit of track was put down through the station, well there’s a set
of points to be cut into place, but the job is just about done.
Thanks to help from Network Rail, Balfour Beatty and Southeastern staff I was
able to sneak beyond the barriers and grab a few pictures. Despite the rain a
hi-tech operation got the ballast, sleepers and track down in just a few hours.
117 photos taken over the last two weeks are
in the usual place and there are
some preliminary pictures of the Harrow Manorway works
too. I suspect that Abbey Wood is going to suffer severe traffic congestion problems over the next 18 months.