Hi,

The old railway line that is now a cycle/foot path between Pritchard Way and Sutton Road has been sealed off. The sign says that the bridge has collapsed and all the accesses onto the Reabrook Valley have been fenced off too.

Does anyone know anything about this? It was fine on saturday moring and it is a darn inconvenience as I use it most days!

Schizoid

As far as I know the cycleway between Pritchard Way & Sutton Road in Shrewsbury has been closed until further notice, following a collapse of the surface into a culvert.

Pedestrians & cyclists are advised to take an alternative route.

Thanks Chris, I did wonder whether you would be in the know.

We can't get near enough to ask one of the workmen about it ourselves. Probably didn't help that a pick-up truck decided to bomb along on Saturday morning either.....

According to the Shropshire Star, a hole has appeared in an embankment at the bottom of a bridge over the Rea Brook. Engineers are going to divert the brook so that they can investigate. If the bridge were to collapse then the water would have somewhere to go.

So they're going to spend a lot of time and effort diverting the Rea Brook (no mean feat) whilst the bridge is evidently collapsing anyway? Surely this time and effort should be going straight into making sure the bridge does not collapse? I'm sure there's some bureaucratic reasoning behind this - probably along the lines of them not needing permission to divert the brook, but needing acres of paperwork to mend a bridge.

Seems the Rea Brook has been permanently diverted!

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2008/02/flow...ltered-forever/

I take it though that it's not really a major diversion?

Crumbs! Not far off the cost of fighting the unitary authority and paying off the chief executive.

I think their biggest worry was that if the bridge collapsed and blocked the brook they would end up with a Belle Vue waterworld :o :D