New railway bridge

Work on the railway bridge over the A60, close to The Brush.

The work that has recently taken place to demolish and rebuild the A60 bridge, and make it higher, is part of the Reunification of the Great Central Line, which would see the Leicester to Loughborough steam train travel all the way to Ruddington. The project is covered on the GCR's own webpages, but below are some of my photos from the recent work to replace the A60 bridge. I knew it was being demolished and replaced with a higher bridge, but what I hadn't realised was that the increase in height was only to be 3 inches!! 

Photos from 1st October 2022 on the first weekend of the works. By the time I got there, the bridge was already demolished!!!! And, it wasn't possible to get particularly close to the action, as both the road and the footpath were closed, and even the footpath by the side of Brush was out of bounds.

Here's the bridge in situ, in 2019, heading towards Nottingham

Here's the bridge in 2020, heading into Loughborough

Looking towards Loughborough

Road closed from Nottingham into Loughborough

Digger in action

Digger in action

Digger in the distance!

Road closed going out of Loughborough 

A couple of weeks later, on 15th October, I went down to see how the work was progressing, and at least this time I could actually get closer!

Looking from Loughborough towards the bridge

The former bridge adjacent to the footpath to the Meadows (going towards Nottingham)

Remains of the bridge opposite the footpath to the Meadows, heading towards Nottingham

As above

Close-up of the remains next to the footpath

Looking towards Loughborough

During the works, the road was either closed, or there were temporary traffic lights in action. The work was a little delayed, so I popped down again on 21st November to see what was happening - lots!

Looking towards Nottingham

In the direction of Nottingham

Looking towards Loughborough

Next to the Hermitage Brook

Looking along the track towards the GCR station

My final visit was on 27th November, and I was pleased to see that essentially, the work has been completed.

Looking from close to the Brush

Looking towards Nottingham

Under the bridge

Looking towards Loughborough

Under the bridge coming towards Loughborough

Looking towards Nottingham

Looking towards Nottingham

Looking towards Loughborough

Looking towards Nottingham

Interestingly, this bridge is very, very similar to the one that was replaced in late 2017, which is close to the civic amenity site.

The bridge near the civic amenity tip 

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