Stadium Watch 4

[Gruntfuttock]

you need to work on your image stability or you have bad shakes lol......oh and why were you concentrating on that workmans arse for so long in that second video ? lol

shh I was hoping nobody would notice my fixation !!!

and it was hand held on my phone so its not bad

[SaintPeter]

Brilliant vids and pics guys, do you think those block built pits under the stand are holding cells for irate wire fans?

Lol no there the lift shafts

[Jase]

ignore me

[SaintPeter]

Why

[Jase]

Why

i thought you said there was no lift shafts
lol

[SaintPeter]

oh lol
To be honest Jase the Lift shafts are different to what they re usually like. Usually u have a steel structure in 4 corners of the lift shafts crossed off at each level and this is identifiable from a distance. But when they installed the stairs you would have never known there would be lifts inbetween them wothout the plans.

[SaintPeter]

stadium might be done sooner aswell. We are in for a scorcher of a summer if what i have just read is anything to believe.

1976 here we come lol

[Sceptical Ste]

Could you get some photos of that old access road plz SC from different angles the next time you go down there? Would be good to see if they are leveling it off. It would make sense if they are getting rid of that bridge and leveling PX road. But if there not getting rid of the old bridge it would be hard to get on as you say, as the stadium site is about 1M higher than the PX road.

Could you get some photos of that old access road plz SC from different angles the next time you go down there? Would be good to see if they are leveling it off. It would make sense if they are getting rid of that bridge and leveling PX road. But if there not getting rid of the old bridge it would be hard to get on as you say, as the stadium site is about 1M higher than the PX road.

Found some photos i took before work began on the stadium.
The bridge half way down old Warrington road.



The line splits at this location, did this branch line go into UGB or Pilks?



On top of the bridge.



View from the bridge



Warrington old road before work started.



Warrington old road now.

[Dicko]

If memory serves me well that bridge was the one all the wagons used to get stuck under coming out of the old U.G.B. loading yard.

[doghead]

Both the sheet works and the old UGB had a railway system which came together roughly where the B@Q island is now, the sheet works still has a railway conection, the end of Watson street, the street that ran through the sheet works had a rail crossing just before it met Warrington old road.
For those not old enough to remember, one side of Watson St is the row of warehouses and factory buildings opposite the back of Tesco on the link road.

[doghead]

If memory serves me well that bridge was the one all the wagons used to get stuck under coming out of the old U.G.B. loading yard.

walk under that many times when I worked at the old UGB for a brief spell.

[SaintPeter]

i have just had a mad thought. What if they are thinking of demoloshing them 2 old bridges and extending the stadium site right upto the retail park. As there is a lot or redevelopmemt in that area with the gas tower an all, wojld seem a shame to keep an old railway line as a sliver between the two. Especially of it isnt being re opened.

[Sceptical Ste]

This shows the general arrangement of the stadium with the ramp elevations and location on old Warrington road.

http://llpgport.oltps.sthelens.gov.u...ageName=140161

[doghead]

i have just had a mad thought. What if they are thinking of demoloshing them 2 old bridges and extending the stadium site right upto the retail park. As there is a lot or redevelopmemt in that area with the gas tower an all, wojld seem a shame to keep an old railway line as a sliver between the two. Especially of it isnt being re opened.

I think the stadium could force a decision on the old rail line, last I heard they where in parliament trying to get it opened