On 21/02/2018 17:18, Nightjar wrote:
On 20-Feb-18 8:07 PM, ARW wrote:
On 20/02/2018 19:53, Nightjar wrote:
On 20-Feb-18 7:18 PM, ARW wrote:
An awful lot of roads near me seem to have "site entrance signs" to
fields and lots of mud on the road. Started about a week ago.

Is this really the HS2 starting?

Most roads around Hemsworth on the A628 and lots of ones on the A6021

Any ideas other than HS2? Some of them look a long way from the HS2
proposed route (although that could be for machinery storage.

And a massive piece of scaffolding was erected in the last few days
at one of the sites right in the middle of a field.

A wind farm?




The sites are too far apart for that. The site entrances cover Brierly
to Hampole but the site entrances are not linked together ie each site
is an individual site.


The offshore wind farm at Worthing involved laying around 30km of
underground cabling. There were site entrances spread along the whole
length of the run.


Looked again this morning going in the other direction and with a bit of
daylight.

Well some of the scaffold is for a pylon. It was just by the time I saw
the scaffold yesterday the pylon was behind me. Some of the other
entrances do not look to be near pylons. However a look at Google sat
images suggests that this is actually the closest entry point (without
building bridges or chopping down trees) to the pylons as they are in
the middle of nowhere.

The first site entrance is actually down the track on this Google maps link.

https://goo.gl/maps/WFfPNszraCE2

That is right on the HS2 suggested route but there are pylons down at
the end of that track.

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Adam