1. Cornwallis Street channel
The new channel for the River Trent and Fowlea Brook running adjacent to Cornwallis Street is nearing completion. The photograph shows work continuing with the construction of a profiled channel and stone bed.
Progress
Photographs
1. Cornwallis Street channel
The new channel for the River Trent and Fowlea Brook running adjacent to Cornwallis
Street is nearing completion. The photograph shows work continuing with the
construction of a profiled channel and stone bed.
3. Fowlea Brook Channel
A completed section of the new channel for Fowlea Brook North of City Road
junction. The culvert that will eventually enable Fowlea Brook to flow under
the A500 was completed last year. The breakthrough into the existing culvert
under Brook Street will commence soon.
4. Fowlea Brook channel
View looking South to City Road junction showing the construction of the new
channel for Fowlea Brook. This structure will join with the completed section
that runs beneath the New A500 underpass bridge and joins with the River Trent
as it emerges from the old Trent and Mersey canal aqueduct.
5. New Road alignment
View looking South to City Road junction from Glebe Street bridge showing the
new alignment of the Southbound traffic. With traffic now running on each side
of the A500 corridor work can now start in the centre section on the new permanent
carriageway for the A500.
6. Stoke Road underpass
View looking South beneath the new Stoke Road underpass. Work is continuing
beneath the underpass with the construction of a permanent pumping station.
7. Trent and Mersey Canal
View looking North from the new Stoke Road Canal Bridge showing the insertion
of permanent sheet piles that will form part of the new towpath when the canal
is moved to run on its original nineteenth century alignment.
8. Trent and Mersey Canal
View looking South from the new Stoke Road Canal Bridge showing the temporary
sheet pile cofferdam that has enabled work to start on the new canal basin.
9. Fowlea book
Work to strengthen the existing Fowlea Brook culvert at the far Northern section
of the works adjacent to the A500 Southbound on-slip road from Shelton New Road.
The on-slip has been temporarily closed for the duration of the works.