A late afternoon visit to the east side of the site to check up on the latest progress on the embankment. It was quite overcast with dark clouds so the pictures are not great. The gap between the end of the viaduct and the embankment is being filled in so the route is substantially complete from end to end.
Here you can see the gap at the end of the embankment is nearly filled with a digger and roller on top.
Turning to the right, the embankment skirts the end of Centre 3 office building behind the trees. The new gantries can be seen in the distance.
Concrete edging work is progressing well.
The point where the two embankments meet with the new gantry work in the centre of the picture.
The accommodation bridge with temporary ramp along side.
Train passing the future junction
Looking back towards the Centre 3 building at the highest part of the embankment
As the farmer has harvested this field apparently by accessing it through the new bridge, I was able to skirt the edge of the field to a point where I was almost level with the top of the embankment. You can clearly see the layer of ballast.
View through the bridge. The public footpath will be diverted through here.
Another view of the embankment from the Cambridge branch.
Closer look at the final viaduct sections. Cross bracing now in place.
Provision for installing the overhead gantry at the start of the viaduct.
I hadn't noticed this before but the main line overheads have been widened here to accommodate the extra line as it leaves the down slow.
I looked back at earlier photos and this one taken in May clearly shows the two new uprights next to the existing ones which I missed at the time.
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