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[Martin_1962]

The fire was only an excuse for the closure - a series of events like this was the real reason;


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a44_1303209317

Absolutely priceless!

I remember reading a report by a radio amateur partaking in SOTA (summits on the air - essentially climbing to the top of hills, setting up a radio station and talking to people) who lugged his radio equipment up one particularly exhausting hill to find someone already there with his ironing board and iron doing "extreme ironing". 

He remarked that, for once, he wasn't the biggest anorak on the summit.

Kevin

Are these the people Stobart spotters take the piss out of?

Trains take it out of Bus
Bus out of Stobart

[Banjax]

"have i got news for you" showed a pic of a motorway in Japan destroyed by the tsunami and a pic 5 days later of a perfectly restored road - we're rubbish sometimes - just get on with it frak sake 



photos taken less than a week apart  :-?

[Nickbat]

That is not a fair comparison, Banjax. Some of the M1 supports literally exploded as steel cores expanded with the heat. There is a vast difference between the road you show, which looks to be 2-lane and certainly on solid ground, and a 3-lane large bridge section (not including the Northbound carriageway) which serves as a major transport artery. It will, at some stage, need to be competely rebuilt.   

[Vamps]

That is not a fair comparison, Banjax. Some of the M1 supports literally exploded as steel cores expanded with the heat. There is a vast difference between the road you show, which looks to be 2-lane and certainly on solid ground, and a 3-lane large bridge section (not including the Northbound carriageway) which serves as a major transport artery. It will, at some stage, need to be completely rebuilt.   

May be not a direct comparison but that is pretty impressive, a road that you can see is clearly torn apart fully rebuilt in such a short time........

I do understand BJ's point, less talking and a bit more action would be more helpful......

[Nickbat]

The damage had to be assessed by structural engineers, which is no small task when the area beneath the bridge was so heavily fire-damaged. Then, decisions had to be taken as to the way forward. If, as I understand is the case, large specialist support beams have been put in place, they would have needed to be ordered, delivered and installed. As I recall, the motorway was reopened after 4 days, so pretty good going, IMHO! 

That's not to detract from the Japanese workers' efforts but, as I said, the two are in no way comparable (in my view).  :-/