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There are two sets of unusual scaffolding set up. One at the A3 end of the
garden of the hotel at the end of Seven Hills Road, the next a few miles
north.

Why build scaffolding around nothing? They are not trying to support
buildings, but have built a huge scaffold for no real reason.

Any ideas?

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elyob wrote:
There are two sets of unusual scaffolding set up. One at the A3 end of the
garden of the hotel at the end of Seven Hills Road, the next a few miles
north.

Why build scaffolding around nothing? They are not trying to support
buildings, but have built a huge scaffold for no real reason.

Any ideas?

This is just a guess, but the OS map shows power lines crossing the A3
just west of the hotel. Is the scaffolding beneath these power lines?
If so then there's some maintenance going on on the pylons and the
scaffold is related to this.

PaulO

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Paul Oter wrote:
elyob wrote:
There are two sets of unusual scaffolding set up. One at the A3 end
of the garden of the hotel at the end of Seven Hills Road, the next
a few miles north.

Why build scaffolding around nothing? They are not trying to support
buildings, but have built a huge scaffold for no real reason.

Any ideas?

This is just a guess, but the OS map shows power lines crossing the A3
just west of the hotel. Is the scaffolding beneath these power lines?
If so then there's some maintenance going on on the pylons and the
scaffold is related to this.

PaulO

Indeed you will see the scaffolding under the wires by the A3, at Copsham
Lane (between the A3 & Esher) and near Fairoak Lane (Malden Rushett).
The national grid substation is in Fairoak Lane.
Where the wires run alongside the A3 they look lower than normal, it could
be that thay are going to be replaced.


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"Tony Dragon" wrote in message
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Paul Oter wrote:
elyob wrote:
There are two sets of unusual scaffolding set up. One at the A3 end
of the garden of the hotel at the end of Seven Hills Road, the next
a few miles north.

Why build scaffolding around nothing? They are not trying to support
buildings, but have built a huge scaffold for no real reason.

Any ideas?

This is just a guess, but the OS map shows power lines crossing the A3
just west of the hotel. Is the scaffolding beneath these power lines?
If so then there's some maintenance going on on the pylons and the
scaffold is related to this.

PaulO

Indeed you will see the scaffolding under the wires by the A3, at Copsham
Lane (between the A3 & Esher) and near Fairoak Lane (Malden Rushett).
The national grid substation is in Fairoak Lane.
Where the wires run alongside the A3 they look lower than normal, it could
be that thay are going to be replaced.


I'm pretty sure the first scaffolding I passed was directly at the end of
the hotel gardens and looking at the OS maps on multimap (1:25000) the power
lines are quite far away from where I remember the scaffolding.

However, it seems like a logical reason for having very tall and wide
scaffolding in the middle of nowhere. Thanks for the theory.

Slightly out of London .. the A3 & M25
 

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:19:26 +0100, "elyob"
wrote:


"Tony Dragon" wrote in message
...
Paul Oter wrote:
elyob wrote:
There are two sets of unusual scaffolding set up. One at the A3 end
of the garden of the hotel at the end of Seven Hills Road, the next
a few miles north.

Why build scaffolding around nothing? They are not trying to support
buildings, but have built a huge scaffold for no real reason.

Any ideas?

This is just a guess, but the OS map shows power lines crossing the A3
just west of the hotel. Is the scaffolding beneath these power lines?
If so then there's some maintenance going on on the pylons and the
scaffold is related to this.

PaulO

Indeed you will see the scaffolding under the wires by the A3, at Copsham
Lane (between the A3 & Esher) and near Fairoak Lane (Malden Rushett).
The national grid substation is in Fairoak Lane.
Where the wires run alongside the A3 they look lower than normal, it could
be that thay are going to be replaced.


I'm pretty sure the first scaffolding I passed was directly at the end of
the hotel gardens and looking at the OS maps on multimap (1:25000) the power
lines are quite far away from where I remember the scaffolding.

However, it seems like a logical reason for having very tall and wide
scaffolding in the middle of nowhere. Thanks for the theory.

There was some similar scaffolding on the M1 (somewhere near London
Gateway services IIRC) until recently. At one point there was
scaffolding on both sides of the road, and green netting stretched
between them. Presumably this was for safety so they could replace
the cabling between the pylons without closing the road.

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"Tom Robinson" wrote in message
I'm pretty sure the first scaffolding I passed was directly at the end of
the hotel gardens and looking at the OS maps on multimap (1:25000) the
power
lines are quite far away from where I remember the scaffolding.

However, it seems like a logical reason for having very tall and wide
scaffolding in the middle of nowhere. Thanks for the theory.

There was some similar scaffolding on the M1 (somewhere near London
Gateway services IIRC) until recently. At one point there was
scaffolding on both sides of the road, and green netting stretched
between them. Presumably this was for safety so they could replace
the cabling between the pylons without closing the road.


I had the chance to pass this point again this week and managed to get a
photo. It seems that the theory was indeed correct, Paul gets first prize!

http://static.flickr.com/67/19902465...d89ade.jpg?v=0