Etymologist
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Just east of Blackfriars bridge.
What on earth is this thing in the centre of the picture? Anyone?
And does anyone know the story behind these old red bridge spans in the background?
Oil rig type thing in the thames and old bridge spans?
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Just east of Blackfriars bridge.
What on earth is this thing in the centre of the picture? Anyone?
And does anyone know the story behind these old red bridge spans in the background?
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
I walked past that thing earlier today and was wondering about it too.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
it's a cute little Lift Boat.
They are used as handy work platforms so they have a little crane and stuff so you could use them as a stable platform for repairing bridges (they get used a lot in the shallow water oil-field here for maintaining oil rigs).
When they want to move it they will jack the hull into the water and the legs up into the air. I'd guess the legs will rotoate horizontally to get under the bridges. It looks like it has a little outboard on the back to allow it to move around but i'm sure they use a tug with the currents in the river.
from wiki..
Blackfriars Bridge
The current bridge was completed in 1869 and consists of five wrought iron arches built to a design by Joseph Cubitt. Cubitt also designed the adjacent rail bridge (now demolished) and it was a condition that the spans of the two bridges be aligned.
They are used as handy work platforms so they have a little crane and stuff so you could use them as a stable platform for repairing bridges (they get used a lot in the shallow water oil-field here for maintaining oil rigs).
When they want to move it they will jack the hull into the water and the legs up into the air. I'd guess the legs will rotoate horizontally to get under the bridges. It looks like it has a little outboard on the back to allow it to move around but i'm sure they use a tug with the currents in the river.
from wiki..
Blackfriars Bridge
The current bridge was completed in 1869 and consists of five wrought iron arches built to a design by Joseph Cubitt. Cubitt also designed the adjacent rail bridge (now demolished) and it was a condition that the spans of the two bridges be aligned.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
The old red bridge supports are from the old Dover and Chatham railway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
The editor of the SE1 community website has done some research - it is for a structural survey of the railway bridge in advance of the Thameslink project for a new Blackfriars station built straddling the St Pauls railway bridge of 1886 still in use and the piers of the demolished Alexandra Railway Bridge of 1865. (The massive London Chatham & Dover Railway shields have only been paired on the south bank for about fifteen years, IIRC - one was previously on the City side)
(ETA I'm pretty sure that this was formerly the Alexandra Bridge, and Victorian London agrees, but both Chris Roberts' Cross River Traffic and Googling several otherwise reliable sites reckon that the even uglier railway bridge into Cannon Street was Alexandra Bridge
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(ETA I'm pretty sure that this was formerly the Alexandra Bridge, and Victorian London agrees, but both Chris Roberts' Cross River Traffic and Googling several otherwise reliable sites reckon that the even uglier railway bridge into Cannon Street was Alexandra Bridge
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Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
There's a big graphic of the proposed new station at the top of http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/1326.aspx
There'll be an entrance on the south bank of the river
There'll be an entrance on the south bank of the river
Pedigreechum
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I think it is a ruse.
About four years ago there was a very similar rig on Westminster Bridge drilling and looking for unexploded ordinances.
From a company called FoodGrow
About four years ago there was a very similar rig on Westminster Bridge drilling and looking for unexploded ordinances.
From a company called FoodGrow
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
What are the left doing about it, that's what I want to know.
pontificating on the internet.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Fishy 
Etymologist
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What are unexploded ordinances?
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
IIRC they had to completely redesign the new Hungerford footbridges when they realised there were probably a couple lying somewhere in the riverbed between near where they wanted to pile and a few yards away from the southbound tunnel of the Northern Line
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
richardtre
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Just to clarify to all this modualar jack up rig was built in CORNWALL in 2000 and she has many sister ships. and at present is current performing drilling operations.
davesgcr
Reading books
One for the many anoraks here .......
Locomotives are normally banned from Blackfriars Bridge apart from the class 73 locomotives (and then with special working arrangements)
Just as well its being checked over - we wouldent want a big splash would we when they build the new station over the bridge ....!!!
Locomotives are normally banned from Blackfriars Bridge apart from the class 73 locomotives (and then with special working arrangements)
Just as well its being checked over - we wouldent want a big splash would we when they build the new station over the bridge ....!!!
Gixxer1000
cant wheelie a shaftie :(
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Just to clarify to all this modualar jack up rig was built in CORNWALL in 2000 and she has many sister ships. and at present is current performing drilling operations.
So its a modular jack up rig. What exactly is that?
It has sister ships. What does that mean? There are others like it I'm guessing.
It is currently performing drilling operations to what purpose?
That would be laws or byelaws that haven't gone "bang" yet. As you'd expect near Westminster.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
1. modu·lar (mäj′ə lər) adjective designating or of units of standardized size, design, construction, etc. that can be arranged or fitted together in a variety of ways
jack-up (plural jack-ups) or jack-up rig (plural jack-up rigs) noun oil rig with retractable legs: an offshore oil rig with a floating hull and retractable legs that can be lowered to the seabed for support
2. No flies on you
3. See post #6 above
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
Again, quoting from the invaluable team at London-SE1, but this time from their "dead tree" monthly newsletter in SE1
inSE1 September edition said:
Oil Rigger
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Anyways... the rig's been far downstream since.
I think it's sampling the path of the Thames Tunnel - a fuck-off big drain.
I think it's sampling the path of the Thames Tunnel - a fuck-off big drain.
