TfL are so pleased with their 'new train set' they have set up a webcam to
cover the ELL bridge installation at Shoreditch High St.

Accessible via middle of: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

Paul S

On 29 Mar, 09:36, "Paul Scott" wrote:

TfL are so pleased with their 'new train set' they have set up a webcam to
cover the ELL bridge installation at Shoreditch High St.

Accessible via middle of: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/


Wow - there's a full live non-stuttering video feed, not just
regularly updated still photos.

And the bridge has already been moved into place over the road! I can
see orange jacketed bods walking over it right now. Good work. A new
mini London landmark is born.

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(Mizter T) wrote:

On 29 Mar, 09:36, "Paul Scott"
wrote:

TfL are so pleased with their 'new train set' they have set up a
webcam to cover the ELL bridge installation at Shoreditch High St.

Accessible via middle of: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

Wow - there's a full live non-stuttering video feed, not just
regularly updated still photos.

And the bridge has already been moved into place over the road! I can
see orange jacketed bods walking over it right now. Good work. A new
mini London landmark is born.

Lucky you! It's not working now (15:30).

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Colin Rosenstiel

On Mar 29, 10:32 am, Mizter T wrote:
And the bridge has already been moved into place over the road! I can
see orange jacketed bods walking over it right now. Good work. A new
mini London landmark is born.

Here are some camera-phone photos I took at lunchtime :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6387911...57604300907267

(they are cc-by-sa)

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Abi

"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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TfL are so pleased with their 'new train set' they have set up a webcam to
cover the ELL bridge installation at Shoreditch High St.

Accessible via middle of: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

Is this just a one off or will they maintain the webcam? Are there any other
webcams of ELLX?

I haven't seen a track schematic, but it appears that the ELLX's route in
that are will be on a rather tight loop; Going north, it will cross the new
bridge, go via the old Broad Street and then the cross the bridge in Hoxton,
right?

On 29 Mar, 18:05, wrote:
Is this just a one off or will they maintain the webcam? Are there any other
webcams of ELLX?

One off I'd think. The site is overlooked by a building full of web
agencies (where they've put the cam), so it would have been very easy
to arrange this one.

I haven't seen a track schematic, but it appears that the ELLX's route in
that are will be on a rather tight loop; Going north, it will cross the new
bridge, go via the old Broad Street and then the cross the bridge in Hoxton,
right?

Yes. You'll find a map I made in the January archives on my site.

I didn't get there until 8:30am and the bridge was already only two
feet above where it was going, and touched down by 9am.

U

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"Paul Scott" wrote in message
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TfL are so pleased with their 'new train set' they have set up a webcam
to cover the ELL bridge installation at Shoreditch High St.

Accessible via middle of: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/

Is this just a one off or will they maintain the webcam? Are there any
other webcams of ELLX?

I haven't seen a track schematic, but it appears that the ELLX's route in
that are will be on a rather tight loop; Going north, it will cross the
new bridge, go via the old Broad Street and then the cross the bridge in
Hoxton, right?

It is a tight bend, I believe it is one of the main reasons the whole
section through from Shoreditch (ex LU station site) to Dalston is being
installed as slab track using noise reduction measures.

Might help explain the extended timescales and high costs for the
installation I guess...

Paul S

On 29 Mar, 15:31, Abigail Brady wrote:
On Mar 29, 10:32 am, Mizter T wrote:

And the bridge has already been moved into place over the road! I can
see orange jacketed bods walking over it right now. Good work. A new
mini London landmark is born.

Here are some camera-phone photos I took at lunchtime :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6387911...57604300907267

Perhaps its just a matter of perspective , but it doesn't look theres
much clearance underneath it. I wonder if passengers on the top decks
of buses will be ducking as they go under it!

B2003

On 29 Mar, 22:34, Boltar wrote:
Perhaps its just a matter of perspective , but it doesn't look theres
much clearance underneath it. I wonder if passengers on the top decks
of buses will be ducking as they go under it!

It's just a very big bridge. The diagram I have here says 5.7m
headroom. I don't think it's even getting low bridge signs or bridge
strike protection beams.

(The bridge that takes the line back over Shoreditch High Street says
4.8m)

U

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A blog about transport projects in London

On 29 Mar, 16:31, Abigail Brady wrote:

On Mar 29, 10:32 am, Mizter T wrote:

And the bridge has already been moved into place over the road! I can
see orange jacketed bods walking over it right now. Good work. A new
mini London landmark is born.

Here are some camera-phone photos I took at lunchtime :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6387911...57604300907267

(they are cc-by-sa)


Shoreditch High Street was reopen to traffic by 9pm-ish last night,
and I went under the new bridge. So it looks like work was completed
ahead of schedule - the relevant ELLX page [1] states that closures
will be in operation until 5am on monday morning, unless the road has
been closed again today for some extra work to be performed on the
bridge, though I can't quite see why that might happen - but as the
webcam has gone down and I'm not physically there I can say for sure
either way.

Though Radio 5 were still reporting that Shoreditch High Street was
closed ("due to roadworks"!) at the time - though there was still
congestion as Bishopsgate (and Norton Foregate) were closed southbound
for separate works.

It looks like TfL have sensibly embraced the 'under promise, over
deliver' maxim here - I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the
ELLX does in fact open for business at the timetable change in
December '09, which I am led to believe is the date that is pencilled
in on the 'optimistic construction timetable' (as it were).

The bridge itself is impressive - it's big, and of a simple,
straightforward but eye pleasing design. Whilst I didn't see a double
decker going under it's quite clear that there's plenty of clearance
for high vehicles.

Whilst it comes as no surprise it must nonetheless be a bit odd for
locals to find this new dominating structure in place, especially as
there's never been a bridge there before. I think what it might have
been like when the line went in over Ludgate Hill between Blackfriars
(though was it not named St Paul's at the time) and Holborn Viaduct -
though that bridge did spoil a great view of St Paul's, which was
reinstated when the bridge was removed and the Thameslink line was
diverted under the road into City Thameslink station (which
confusingly on opening was also named St Paul's - well, St Paul's
Thameslink, to be precise).

The new bridge at Shoreditch doesn't obscure any classic view of this
sort, though I guess it does somewhat obstruct one's view of the
gleaming towers of the City from points north. I do hope that someone
made a decent photographic record of what it was like before the
bridge went up for the sake of posterity.

P.S. Abi - what does "they are cc-by-sa" mean?!

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[1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/proj...lway/2119.aspx