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Forecourt Sale on Saturday!
 
The first URC forecourt sale of the summer was a great success, with lovely weather, a good crowd, a great atmosphere and £878 raised for the church and our chosen charities for the year: The Brain Tumour Charity and Sightsavers.  We’re looking for at least as good a result at our next event next Saturday 14th June, 10am to 12 Noon, admission FREE, but we can only do it if the good folk of Ickenham are as generous again in the items you give us.  As usual, we will be selling plants, bric-a-brac, books, jigsaws, toys and games, stamps and postcards, small curios and almost anything else except clothes and shoes.  We have already had some interesting books in, including Puffin Picture Books, local history, war and Indian cricket.  As usual, the sale will be accompanied by a friendly coffee morning with homemade cakes.  Donations can be brought to the church on Friday 13th June between 2pm and 6pm or ring Richard Piper on 01895 634348 for collection.  This is also the number for queries or offers of help.  See you on the 14th June, or 13th if you’re bringing us stuff!

HS2 works update

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New Harvil Road Resurfacing – Full Road Closure – Mon 11/08 to Fri 29/08 (Provisional Dates) 
The long awaited LBH resurfacing of Harvil Road between the junction with Swakeleys Road and HS2 Gate 1 Site has now been provisionally scheduled to take place from Mon 11/08 until Fri 29/08. 
This will be a Full Road Closure in place 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in order to get this large area of road completely resurfaced.  
These are provisional dates that will be confirmed in the next couple of weeks once the Contractor and LBH Highways Team are confident that the works can be completed within this specified timeframe. If these works can be delivered across 19 days it will be a big reduction on the initially quoted 4 week Full Road Closure which would mean less disruption for users of Harvil Road in getting these essential works completed. 
During the Road Closure access maintained for residents of Harvil Road only during the Road Closure and the U9 Bus will have to be on Diversion. 
The confirmed dates and the Diversion Route will follow over the next couple of weeks.  
There is also a scheduled Road Closure of Breakspear Road South from Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm but this will be dependent on LBH completing the above resurfacing works by Fri 29/08.  
 
New Breakspear Road South Road Closure – Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm 
HS2/SCS have agreed with LBH that Breakspear Road South will be closed at the Chiltern Railway Bridge from Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm while the Conveyor Bridge that oversails the Highway is removed (Conveyor Bridge shown in the photo below). 
The Conveyor Bridge carries the Conveyor system that was used to transport the TBM Spoil/Material over Breakspear Road South towards the Treatment Area at Harvil Road Gate 1. Now that both TBMs have completed their tunnelling between West Ruislip and Greenpark Way in LB Ealing the Conveyors are being removed and the Bridges that carry the Conveyor can also be removed.  
These works will involve laying Matting on the road surface to protect it, then using a Crane to lower the Bridge to ground level before dismantling and removing it. The road would then be cleared with the Matting removed before reopening to the public. 
This has been scheduled for the last weekend of the school summer holidays and also allows LBH to complete their planned LBH resurfacing works which will close Harvil Road prior to this from 11/08 to 29/08. 
I will confirm the details of the Diversion Route once confirmed with HS2/SCS but it is likely to be the usual Diversion via Swakeleys Road, Ickenham High Road, Bury Street, Breakspear Road
New Construction of Tunnel Walkways from West Ruislip Portal – May 2025 to Feb 2026 
With the tunnelling now completed on the 2 tunnels between West Ruislip Portal and Greenpark Way Vent Shaft, the next stage is to build tunnel walkways inside the tunnels. There will be 2 walkways built inside each tunnel, a narrow walkway for maintenance access and a wider walkway to be used to safely evacuate passengers in case of emergency (once the railway is operational).  
In order to be build these walkways there will be concrete deliveries by lorry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week between the end of May 2025 and Feb 2026 to the West Ruislip Portal Site off Ickenham Road. 
The lorries will deliver ready-mixed concrete to electric pumps located behind a 2 metre high wall at the tunnel entrance (see map overleaf). The concrete will be pumped through a pipe into the concrete mixer truck and taken into the tunnels. The walkways will be built along the entire length of the tunnel using a Formwork system (Formwork is a temporary structure which shapes the walkway). The concrete is poured into the Formwork until it hardens, with the Formwork system being moved along the inside of the tunnel until the walkways are completed. 
HS2/SCS do not expect that these works will be noisy above ground as they will all take place within the tunnels, but there will be concrete deliveries by lorry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
 
 
 

Met’ line timetable changes

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Important changes to the Metropolitan line timetable
Monday 2 until Thursday 5 June
The next phase of the Four Lines Modernisation Programme will be introduced over the weekend of Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June.
To help embed this latest upgrade to the signalling system, a temporary timetable will be in place between Monday 2 and Thursday 5 June.
There will be changes to train times throughout the day and fewer peak hour services will run.
Visit tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey,   https://tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/?cid=plan-a-journey to check for train times. 
Also   https://tfl.gov.uk/tube-dlr-overground/status/#metropolitan
  METROPOLITAN LINE: Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June, no service between Aldgate and Watford. Trains will continue to operate between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Amersham / Chesham, but operate non-stop between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Moor Park. CHILTERN RAILWAYS services continue to operate between Marylebone and Amersham. Replacement buses operate. Replacement buses operate:Service JL1: Stonebridge Park (for Bakerloo and Lioness lines) – Wembley Park – Kingsbury – Queensbury – Canons Park (Honeypot Lane) – Stanmore;Service JL2: Finchley Road – West Hampstead (buses towards Finchley Road only) – Kilburn – Willesden Green – Dollis Hill – Neasden – Wembley Park;Service ML1: Stonebridge Park (for Bakerloo and Lioness lines) – Wembley Park – Preston Road – Northwick Park Hospital – Harrow-on-the-Hill – (Saturday until 1700 continuing to/from West Harrow (Pinner Road) – North Harrow (Station Road) – Rayners Lane);Service ML2: Harrow-on-the-Hill – West Harrow (Pinner Road) – North Harrow (Pinner Road) – Pinner – Northwood Hills – Northwood – Rickmansworth – Croxley – Watford;Service ML3: Limited early morning and late evening journeys: Baker Street – Harrow-on-the-Hill; Harrow-on-the-Hill – Stonebridge Park;Service ML5: Northwood – Moor Park;
From Friday 6 June the summer timetable, which was introduced on Monday 14 April, will resume.
 

HS2 works update

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New Breakspear Road South Road Closure – Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm
 
HS2/SCS have agreed with LBH that Breakspear Road South will be closed at the Chiltern Railway Bridge from Fri 29/08 at 8pm until Sun 31/08 at 8pm while the Conveyor Bridge that oversails the Highway is removed (Conveyor Bridge shown in the photo below).
 
The Conveyor Bridge carries the Conveyor system that was used to transport the TBM Spoil/Material over Breakspear Road South towards the Treatment Area at Harvil Road Gate 1. Now that both TBMs have completed their tunnelling between West Ruislip and Greenpark Way in LB Ealing the Conveyors are being removed and the Bridges that carry the Conveyor can also be removed.
 
These works will involve laying Matting on the road surface to protect it, then using a Crane to lower the Bridge to ground level before dismantling and removing it. The road would then be cleared with the Matting removed before reopening to the public.
 
This has been scheduled for the last weekend of the school summer holidays to minimise disruption and to also allow LBH a larger window of opportunity to schedule in the planned LBH resurfacing works which will close Harvil Road for a likely 4 week period earlier in the summer holidays (dates to be finalised).
 
I will confirm the details of the Diversion Route once confirmed with HS2/SCS but it is likely to be the usual Diversion via Swakeleys Road, Ickenham High Road, Bury Street, Breakspear Road
 
New Construction of Tunnel Walkways from West Ruislip Portal – May 2025 to Feb 2026
 
With the tunnelling now completed on the 2 tunnels between West Ruislip Portal and Greenpark Way Vent Shaft, the next stage is to build tunnel walkways inside the tunnels. There will be 2 walkways built inside each tunnel, a narrow walkway for maintenance access and a wider walkway to be used to safely evacuate passengers in case of emergency (once the railway is operational).
 
In order to be build these walkways there will be concrete deliveries by lorry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week between the end of May 2025 and Feb 2026 to the West Ruislip Portal Site off Ickenham Road.
 
The lorries will deliver ready-mixed concrete to electric pumps located behind a 2 metre high wall at the tunnel entrance (see map overleaf). The concrete will be pumped through a pipe into the concrete mixer truck and taken into the tunnels. The walkways will be built along the entire length of the tunnel using a Formwork system (Formwork is a temporary structure which shapes the walkway). The concrete is poured into the Formwork until it hardens, with the Formwork system being moved along the inside of the tunnel until the walkways are completed.
 
HS2/SCS do not expect that these works will be noisy above ground as they will all take place within the tunnels, but there will be concrete deliveries by lorry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.