Railway Rumblings

Been woken by strange rumblings in the night lately? It looks like Network Rail are carrying out engineering works along the rail line parallel to Moray Place.

The last couple of Sunday nights they have been out and about in the wee small hours creating some form of concrete base structures along the line. This has involved trucks, bags of concrete, cut back vegetation and destroying fences.

As ever with NR, there seems to be no thought given to informing the public or even the Council of the works they are doing.

Residents at 52 Marywood Square have been in contact with City Councillors and the police. As a result, a fallen fence was put back on Wednesday – by wrapping a chain at each corner of the fallen panel and the adjacent part of the standing fencing and securing the chain with a nut and bolt.

Councillors have also written to Network Rail, the Council Regeneration Service and the Police

Take a look at the photos of the base. On the far side of the track, it is not possible to get a clear photo due to the vegetation so they are taken some distance away.

On this side, you can’t really see the large base as it is below the embankment.

The last photo, taken from inside the house, is to show where it is on Moray Place and how close it is to the front window.

You can see the gaps made by removing some of the shrubs for the base. It does not appear to be a traffic light signal as they don’t have a base.

So, does anyone know what the structures might be for?

What should residents do if the trucks turn up in the middle of the night again?

The same base structure has been built, one terrace down, outside 32 Moray Place but this time on the far embankment. It is only visible through the vegetation on this side of the embankment.

There have been piles of concrete slabs placed at regular intervals along the Moray Place Embankment  between Queen’s Square and Crossmyloof. They may be along the whole embankment but I can’t see through the vegetation further down.

Looks like there is more building work on its way…but will be we ever find out what is going on?

4 Comments

  1. Dee

    You could try contacting this guy:

    Simon Kirby, managing director, Infrastructure Projects
    Simon Kirby joined the board in 2008, having been with Network Rail since 2003. He is responsible for delivery of all large enhancement and renewal infrastructure projects. Simon is also responsible for leading the new rail projects business within Network Rail.

    Previously, Simon held positions in the defence industry and has been involved in a number of land and naval weapons system projects including the Trident nuclear submarine programme. In 2000, he was appointed managing director of three BAE Systems shipyards before, in 2002, becoming managing director of the BAE Systems Type 45 Prime Contract Organisation.

    Simon is also on the board of the Major Projects Association. He has an MSc in Engineering Business Management from Warwick University and is a fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers and of the Association of Project Management.

    Appointed 1 October 2008

    (http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/1322.aspx)

  2. Dee

    …and copying historic Scotland on anything you send him.

  3. Jonathan Patrick

    Yup, you’d think that developers would be happy to advertise their work rather than keep it quiet. Any development in Strathbungo is welcome. The more development the better.

  4. Laura Moodie

    After a bit of digging we at least now know that the works are for the Glasgow South Signalling Remodelling Programme, so they are bases for new signals. NR states letters were sent to every resident within 100m of the line in April. It is possible some of these were lost under the deluge of info relating to the ground consolidation works. NR have, however, acknowledged that letters sent in April are not much use if the work is carried out in August/September.

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