Friday, 29 May 2009

Station Fly-throughs and Some Stop-motion Bridges

Network Rail's graduate recruitment website features several videos that deserve a wider audience.

Most notably, it contains some concept videos for two of the biggest projects currently underway.

Be warned, these videos autoplay and contain sound.

Kings Cross

Thameslink (Including London Bridge and Blackfriars)

There's also a rather good stop-motion video of the work carried out at Clapham Junction on one of the old bridges there.

The video shows the work carried out on an original Victorian rail bridge, which involved using two suitably large rail cranes to remove the existing 100-year old steel-girded bridge and lift in new prefabricated steel composite bridge decks. The whole project took about 100 hours in total:

Bridgework

Finally, another stop-motion video involving bridges was recently made available by the ODA. It shows the Town Centre Link Bridge being pushed into place, which took place earlier this year:





Thanks to PBG for the spot.
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5 comments:

  1. Rob29 May 2009 at 13:32

    Remind me not to visit this blog any more from my open plan office - a video started automatically, complete with sound!

    Rob

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  2. John Bull29 May 2009 at 14:13

    ouch - sorry about that. I knew they autoplayed but I always have my machine muted so hadn't noticed the sound.

    I've moved them "off blog" as links instead.

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  3. Anonymous1 June 2009 at 18:42

    You might want to link directly to the Thameslink Flash video as that page has it at an absolutely tiny size.

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  4. Anonymous1 June 2009 at 18:43

    Oh, and ditto for the King's Cross one.

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  5. Anonymous1 June 2009 at 18:48

    Erm. And the bridgework one!

    Oh dear, it's just not my day today, clearly.

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