I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
the return of trains through Gerrards Cross.  It is at
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/finale.html


Guy Gorton

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:54:27 +0100 someone who may be Guy Gorton
 wrote this:-


>I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
>the return of trains through Gerrards Cross.


The series is an excellent example of a good use of WWW. Something
not commercially viable, but of interest to others.

I also think those involved have done a good job in restoring
services so quickly.


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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:28:08 GMT, "Jack Taylor" 
wrote:


>> Thank you for your work. Maybe this page would be better described as
>> the end of act one - what happens in act two is still being discussed at
>> the bar!
>
>Of the legal or alcoholic variety?
>

Countless words at many bars of the second variety round GX.  Indeed,
anywhere two or three are gathered together.

Guy Gorton

Jack Taylor  writes

>>
>> Thank you for your work. Maybe this page would be better described as
>> the end of act one - what happens in act two is still being discussed at
>> the bar!
>
>Of the legal or alcoholic variety?
>
>

Both and probably by the 'legals' in the bar

  Anyway can i also give thanks for the provision of
pictures and updates;- its been a fascinating experience this 
engineering cock up

Guy Gorton wrote:

> I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
> the return of trains through Gerrards Cross.  It is at
> http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/finale.html


Tesco will be hoping they'll not be giving you the opportunity to add 
'encore.html' to it.

http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/Finale2924.jpg

Difficult to resist photoshopping a longbow into that chap's left hand, 
and a quiver on his back, arrows hopefully with rubber suckers the size 
of a camera lens, with a speech bubble: 'There he is, it's that Guy 
Gorton again'.

Brimstone wrote:

> Guy Gorton wrote:
> 
>>I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
>>the return of trains through Gerrards Cross.  It is at
>>http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/finale.html
>>
> 
> 
> Good work Guy, many thanks for your efforts.


Indeed.

Rewinding to the other end of the saga - the tunnel collapsed in the 
early evening didn't it? Someone posted that the structure is designed 
to accommodate was it 200 millimetres of movement at the crown while 
under construction, but it then seems that there couldn't have been a 
system in place to monitor this movement, because the tunnel surely 
would have deflected relatively slowly before collapsing, and indicated 
its intention by straying outside that 200 millimetre limit - but 
presumably it didn't do this in a way that was visible to anyone. Even 
the train drivers must have spent a day running trains beneath an 
increasingly unhappy structure. Don't suppose it was the sort of 
material to start ejecting tell tale fragments ...

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:54:27 +0100, Guy Gorton
 wrote:


>I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
>the return of trains through Gerrards Cross.  It is at
>http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/finale.html


Thanks, very interesting reading - and thanks for keeping us up to
date throughout with a superb quality of journalism.

I note that the ticket you show was discounted by 50% - are the
discounts remaining for a short time out of compensation, or could
that have been an error?

Neil

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Guy Gorton wrote:

> I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
> the return of trains through Gerrards Cross.  It is at
> http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/finale.html


It has been very interesting reading about what's been going on. Thanks
for providing interesting photos & text.
Wonder what'll happen next!