Boz
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Have the Crossrail excavations run out? I notice that Islay Trader and Celtica Hav are in Northern Spain according to Marine Traffic....
Boz
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Wallasea - Crosrail Project
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ex-Gladys
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I will check for sure but I believe Crossrail tunneling may have finished...
Nope... The last 750m drive between Liverpool Street and Farringdon leading to final breakthrough started this week... Dunno whether that's too little spoil to cart by sea to Wallasea...
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MoodySabre
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Shetland (?) was there on Monday.
Cantata
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A while ago, I asked the Burnham HMs how long the Wallasea project would last - they said several more years yet as the project would be taking spoil from other locations once Crossrail was finished.
Boz
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You're right MS, Shetland Trader is in the Thames on her way back to Wallasea. Perhaps they've just reduced the number of ships? In an odd sort of way I'll miss the activity in the Crouch
Lucky Duck
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Hopefully the additional buoys will remain when the project does end.
Mariner69
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The "SHETLAND TRADER" has just completed her last run under the current contract and is now bound for Ipswich. There is work scheduled until at least 2020 but contracts for the next tranche of work are still being negotiated between the various parties. There may even be a year of peace and quiet before work resumes. It is all fluid at the moment; or so the scuttlebutt says.
Tomahawk
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The Racketeering Self Promotion Bandwaggon initially said they would build a jetty to allow ferry passengs to get to their theme park as part of the "planning gain" and to regenerate the leisure facilities in Burnham.
Of course it was never going to happen and is now being quietly dropped so there will be no extra tourist trade for the town.
Of course it was never going to happen and is now being quietly dropped so there will be no extra tourist trade for the town.
Mariner69
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I think you are being somewhat premature with your statement. It will take time to complete the building phase of the project; but then there will be a very well made pontoon landing with 20 metre plus driven piles in place to provide the ferry landing. Once the conveyors are removed then pathways will exist below them.
It will take time but it will happen.
Burnham Bob
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As far as I know from meetings of the Burnham Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group there are no current plans to make a landing for boats other than the ferry. If they did make landings or moorings available it would make another place to visit in the Crouch which would be welcome. I live in Burnham but places to 'go to and get off' on a day sail are limited to Fambridge.
I'm very dubious about any tourism benefits for Burnham. The maximum complement for the ferry is 10 pasengers. So I'm sure any visitors (and from my experience the idea of getting vast numbers is wishful thinking) will simply drive on the other side of the Crouch.
I'm very dubious about any tourism benefits for Burnham. The maximum complement for the ferry is 10 pasengers. So I'm sure any visitors (and from my experience the idea of getting vast numbers is wishful thinking) will simply drive on the other side of the Crouch.
DavidofMersea
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There is a similar ferry from East Mersea to Brightlingsea for 12 passengers. It runs week ends and Bank Holidays until mid July when it runs 7 days a week. It is very popular
Tomahawk
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I am only relaying what a member of the Burnham Harbour Authority said to me.
The RSPB sold the idea that people would take the train to Burnham and then be able to take the ferry which would be part of the overall benefit. Now it seems the idea of improving the ferry service has been shelved.
Burnham Bob
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I can see the appeal of going from East Mersea to Brightlingsea. Both are nice places and it's a pleasant trip. But a trip across the Crouch to a wetland bird sanctuary is not the same. The RSPB do seem to have done a good PR job but the idea of taking a train to Burnham then a ferry has always seemed a little far fetched to me although I've heard the promises. Burnham is quite a good place to visit without the RSPB.
ashtead
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Is this the same Shetland Trader now spotted in the Medina? Ten years on from posts above but seems a vessel of same name involved per island echo.
