Bristol and Bath Railway Path CLOSURE 9 weeks

[summerdays]

I've been passing the signs saying it's going to be closed from 1st Sept for 35 weeks now without the path being shut. I assume that is the time they are working on the bridge.

Yesterday I noticed an additional sign, and I assume this one relates to the path closure. Looks like it will be 9 weeks from 6th October. There is supposed to be a signed diversion over the tunnel.

 

[the_mikey]

Any update on the Staple Hill closure?

 

[summerdays]

Not that I've heard other than March I think, I'm meeting someone in a week or two who may know more or knows who to ask.....

 

[Flying Dodo]

It's supposed to be signed from 6th December according to the Sustrans link - map shown here.

 

[summerdays]

No they extended the closure, just around that date and didn't exactly try to spread the word about it.

 

[captain nemo1701]

The sign currently reads '22 weeks' which puts the work finishing sometime around March. The road bridge and seperate little pedestrian bridge at Tewell Hill are being changed to become one crossing, so it's going to take a while. Basically, you can't use the Staple Hill tunnel at all as the path is closed from Tewell Hill to the Acacia Road entrance which is the one I use. Diversion signs are in place for you to use the Acacia Road entrance. Take care if you've never used this entrance before, it follows the cutting for a hundred yards or so but the asphalt is in poor condition and there is a feindish 270 degree turn near the bottom!. Still, some numpties on a motorbike had a go at it a few years ago:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgCECpVUA8g&index=49&list=UUYpofpJIX1riygqMl0QyZug

 

[BigAl68]

I hate those hairpins on the ramps. Both as bad as each other. Still haven't managed to get round them when coming up them. March can't come soon enough.

 

[summerdays]

I can get around the hair pins without putting my foot down on the way down, but not up. And I have the diversion sussed going in to Bristol but heading out I still manage to get it wrong .... Like you say, roll on March! And I never make it up that steep bit on the other side of the tunnel, somehow I just get the gears all wrong each time!

 

[captain nemo1701]

I hate those hairpins on the ramps. Both as bad as each other. Still haven't managed to get round them when coming up them. March can't come soon enough.

Yes, going down easy, going up not managed it yet. But with my new mean machine on 29 inch knobblies...maybe

 

[summerdays]

I went in on that path and out on the ring road path and so suffered both diversions today! I am getting very impatient waiting for them to be completed.

 

[runner]

There never seems to be a lot of activity or any urgency to get the job finished.

 

[BigAl68]

They are either busy putting their diggers away or putting up fencing. I stopped and had a good look the other day and if they were also planning to do some work on the tunnel etc it certainly hasn't started yet.

 

[Rasmus]

Someone tipped off road.cc, and they've gotten a few quotes from the council:

http://road.cc/content/news/140598-8-week-part-closure-bristol-bath-railway-path-turns-6-months

 

[BigAl68]

i noticed this has appeared on the road.cc site. Not really anything we don't already know.

http://road.cc/content/news/140598-8-week-part-closure-bristol-bath-railway-path-turns-6-months

 

[BigAl68]

well two of us posting at the same time from the same site.