East Linton's New Station - Progress of Construction
Tom Dickson, our Membership Secretary, has undertaken to photograph the progress during construction and RAGES would like to recognise his many visits to East Linton with his camera to make this record.
Selected images will be shown here with the latest at the top of this web page and captions below each photograph.
Safety railings are being fitted on the platforms. 16/06/2022
Site of the lift tower? 13/06/2022
Platform 2 from a passing train. Photo by John Yellowlees. 11/06/2022
The overhead wires are now moved to the new gantries and the old masts are being removed. 09/06/2022
The new overhead line gantries will replace the single masts which would have been within the platform width. Also the access pathway is being reinforced for the heavy plant, but will be re-instated when work is complete. 30/05/2022
Some of the second platform is now in place. 24/05/2022
A lot of the first platform is now in place. 16/05/2022
Platform fixing onto the "top hats". 16/05/2022
Station construction here is different from Reston. This shows the "top hats" which are placed on top of some of the pilings. The platform sections are then bolted to them. 13/05/2022
Crane being erected to install platform sections. Also seen are some of the steel platform sections. 13/05/2022
Preparation work progresses. 29/04/2022
Piling for the platforms. 15/04/2022
Laying a temporary roadway through the park to allow machinery to access the platform areas. Photo: A Cosgrove. 14/04/2022
Laying a temporary roadway through the park to allow machinery to access the platform areas. Photo: A Cosgrove. 14/04/2022
Station platform components being stored at Dunbar. 13/04/2022
Hardcore being laid. 19/03/2022
Piling columns are now appearing along the track side. 27/02/2022
One of many lorries removing earth from the site. 04/02/2022
Site clearance begins for site offices. 08/12/2021
Drilling taking place for survey work in the park area behind the main street 06/03/2020
Drilling site complex is located in the new housing area next to the Mart 06/03/2020