One of my daughters works for Balfour Beatty, the main contractors for
Network Rail's construction of Blackfriars Station as part of the
Crossrail project.

They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we were
allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and behind the
scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are
of interest.

--
Mike Hughes
A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton
at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England
Interested in American trains real and model?
Look here http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/

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They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we were
allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and behind the
scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are
of interest.

Your pictures made me look back at this BBC story from the 24th August.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11069021

.... because these surprising statements made me do a double take at the
time:

"Construction of the upper concourse has finished and the closure in
November will allow work to switch from the west side to the east side of
the bridge."

"The completion of the upper station concourse paves the way for the track
"switch" at Christmas."

I wonder why the BBC think that. Could it be that NR have issued a press
release that can be misinterpreted big time? Oh yes, and here it is - 'Rail
Minister sees Thameslink progress at St Albans and Blackfriars':

http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co...chCategoryID=8

"The minister continued her tour of the Thameslink Programme by taking a
train to the landmark redevelopment of Blackfriars station, where she was
able to walk along the newly constructed concourse for the north station..."

"The completion of the north station concourse is a critical milestone for
the Blackfriars project..."

Still the same old spin...

Paul S

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(Mike Hughes) wrote:

One of my daughters works for Balfour Beatty, the main contractors
for Network Rail's construction of Blackfriars Station as part of
the Crossrail project.

They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we
were allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and
behind the scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at
http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are of interest.

"This gallery is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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In article ,
(Mike Hughes) wrote:

One of my daughters works for Balfour Beatty, the main contractors
for Network Rail's construction of Blackfriars Station as part of
the Crossrail project.

They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we
were allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and
behind the scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at
http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are of interest.

"This gallery is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

I've just been informed that the site has been so popular the last
couple of days that it has exceeded their daily bandwidth for the level
I subscribe to. I was thinking of going up to the next level anyway.
Give me a day or so and it will be resolved



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Mike Hughes
A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton
at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England
Interested in American trains real and model?
Look here http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/

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In article ,
(Mike Hughes) wrote:

One of my daughters works for Balfour Beatty, the main contractors
for Network Rail's construction of Blackfriars Station as part of
the Crossrail project.

They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we
were allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and
behind the scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at
http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are of interest.

"This gallery is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

I've just been informed that the site has been so popular the last
couple of days that it has exceeded their daily bandwidth for the
level I subscribe to. I was thinking of going up to the next level
anyway. Give me a day or so and it will be resolved

Seems to be working now. Thanks, Mike.

Mind you, I hope FCC doesn't have any 465s! I think you meant South
Eastern.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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In article ,
(Mike Hughes) wrote:

One of my daughters works for Balfour Beatty, the main contractors
for Network Rail's construction of Blackfriars Station as part of
the Crossrail project.

They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we
were allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and
behind the scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at
http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are of interest.

"This gallery is currently unavailable. Please try again later."

I've just been informed that the site has been so popular the last
couple of days that it has exceeded their daily bandwidth for the
level I subscribe to. I was thinking of going up to the next level
anyway. Give me a day or so and it will be resolved

Seems to be working now. Thanks, Mike.

I've upgraded the service I get from fotopic. Although I'm mainly
interested in American railroads I often take pictures of trains in and
around London so I'll set up a separate collection for the British
stuff. It'll take a week or so to do this and I'll let you know when
it's up and running

Mind you, I hope FCC doesn't have any 465s! I think you meant South
Eastern.

You're absolutely right of course.

--
Mike Hughes
A Taxi driver licensed for London and Brighton
at home in Tarring, West Sussex, England
Interested in American trains real and model?
Look here http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/

On 09/09/2010 12:57, Huge wrote:
On 2010-09-08, Mike wrote:
One of my daughters works for Balfour Beatty, the main contractors for
Network Rail's construction of Blackfriars Station as part of the
Crossrail project.

They held a 'friends and family day last Sunday (5 Sept) where we were
allowed to view the project from the Network Rail offices and behind the
scaffolding.

Hope the pictures at http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p67016409.html are
of interest.

As a sometime regular and still occasional user of Blackfriars, it does,
thank you.

En though I don't use it (and never have) thankyou for the pics

--
John Wright

Blasphemy - a victimless crime.