Welcome to the Spillway page of the
FSMR
website
THIS
PAGE LAST UPDATED 04-01-09
This page shows the
construction in 2007of the new lake outfall spillway.
The bridge required heavy maintenance and so it was decided to improve
its construction during this process creating a safer more aesthetic
construction and refurbish, or replace the supporting RSJ,s at the same time.
Also new blue brick support walls were added
The blue brick
edgings are being added to improve bridge stability and water erosion
protection of the footings from the lake outflow here during winter rains.
During a barmy
mid April weekend in 2007 with little rain, our resident brickie, FSMR member
Kev takes a break from the station construction work to lay the new blue brick
walling
The guy standing
overseeing the job is our treasurer ensuring the project stays on budget!!
The track panels
and steel plate decking were removed exposing the RSJ support beams. These were
found to have corroded to the point where it was deemed necessary to renew
them. They were removed the following weekend and new RSJ’s were installed over
the May BH
Note the flood
gauge on the lake edge that goes to 4 feet above high water!!.
Although never
that high, the lake has breached the track walls along the track in previous
wet winters
While in the
workshop over the winter 2006 / 2007, the new trusses were fabricated
The new side
trusses awaiting painting and cross bracing
The new side trusses
are painted, and ready for transport down to the lakeside to be installed on
the bridge
The new blue
brick side walls are installed, and the centre support islands are being
constructed out of concrete, brought to the site by train
The new side
trusses painted, and transported down to the lakeside to be installed on the
bridge
The new bridge
minus decking
The new bridge
receives its decking plates
Almost complete,
the new bridge just requires the approaches to be concreted and ballasted and
centre plates to be added
As can be seen,
the new bridge also offers a much safer access for pedestrians around the
railway during non-running periods on the railway
And of course,
the last item to fit, the obligatory builders plate!!
Taken on a very
cold Easter Sunday in March 2008
The Jubilee 5565
poses on the new structure.
The previous week, flood water was almost up to the
retaining wall as it roared over the outfall
Taken under much warmer
conditions over the first May BH weekend 2008 a 751 “John H Gretton” runs over
the new bridge
And some you tube footage of a drivers eye view of the bridge taken
on a very cold new years day 2009 as the green John H Gretton trundles along
lakeside