River Yare Swing Bridges Unmanned From 24 To 26th December

[ranworthbreeze]

Although this notice names the Reedham Bridge one assumes it will also include the Somerleyton Bridge these bridges operate as a pair of bridges. 

Regards

Alan

 

Good afternoon

Please find attached Broads Authority Notice to Mariners No 32 of 2019 – River Yare Swing Bridge Closure.

Kind regards.

Karen.

Karen Tyrrell

Administrative Officer Operations
Broads Authority

Yare House, 62-64 Thorpe Road, Norwich, NR1 1RY
Tel: 01603 756035 : karen.tyrrell@broads-authority.gov.uk

Broads Authority, Yare House, 62-64 Thorpe Road. Norwich NR1 1RY
01603 610734

Notice to Mariners No. 32 of 2019
River Yare Swing Bridge Closure
Notice is hereby given to boat users: Reedham swing bridge will not be available for opening to river traffic from 20:00hrs 24th December 2019 until 22:00hrs 26th December 2019, this is due to the swing bridge being unattended. Network Rail Operations apologise for any inconvenience caused. For more information contact Network Rail Helpline open 24/7 03457 11 41 41.
High water head room/air draft at Reedham swing bridge 10ft (3.05m). Please refer to gauge boards before negotiating your passage through. For further tidal information please refer to https://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/navigating-the-broads/tide-information
The closure will take place in the following approximate position: TG422016 – X (easting) 642248: Y (northing) 3016553 (shown in red on plan extract). Vessels should ensure that the new position is taken into consideration for passage planning and when navigating in this area.
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12 November 2019

[VetChugger]

Saw this elsewhere!

"There are no trains on those days but no access for the bridge operator if the bridge is open for river traffic unlike Somerleyton where there is a walkway to the station."

Makes sense if you think about it.

[TheQ]

If the bridge is open for river traffic then someone, the other operator must have opened it, he can just close it again to get his replacement.  You can see the network rail vans parked to the left of the track north of the bridge it's just a short walk.. 

The announcement is the bridge is Closed to river traffic!!!

 

 A total wrong excuse for illegally keeping the bridge closed.

 

[grendel]

yes but if they are leaving the bridge unmanned over the christmas period, they cant leave it open, or the operator would be stranded the wrong side of the river, is I think what is being said.

[dnks34]

With all the engineering expertise on the payroll at Network Rail are they not able to come up with a solution to a simple problem? 
 

Is this new or has it always been the case at Reedham?

[TheQ]

basically Network rail don't want to pay the Christmas overtime to keep a man on duty..

[dnks34]

I wonder how they would manage if the bridge became stuck open and engineering staff couldn't get across to it for repairs or the operator couldn't get back to go home. 

I can half understand them not wanting to pay out wages but its still not good enough just to abandon their responsibilities to navigation even if it is Christmas day. 

The bridge could easily be left open and the operator brought back across in a dinghy, it isn’t difficult.