{"id":9132,"date":"2024-12-10T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:37:43","slug":"demolition-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/demolition-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition, 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first of Scatter Rock Macadams\u2019 hoppers at Christow appears quickly to have been abandoned, perhaps because stone could not be taken for use at the depot. The second hopper, the one that remains today, had shutters and a conveyor beneath so that stone could be used to make tarmacadam and concrete castings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This official photograph of the 1943 “insurance works,” designed to improve the diversionary capacity of the Teign Valley route, is the only one taken from this end of the station, just beyond Sheldon Cutting.
The bank which lay between the single running line and Scatter Rock’s gravitational private sidings has been replaced by a retaining wall, allowing the passing loop to be lengthened.
The hoppers are seen, with their superstructure, at this end of the bridge which protected the railway from the overhead ropeway.
Coombes Cottage is seen at left.
Behind the section signal, which would be removed as part of these works, is a platelayers’ hut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thinking it could be blown up as an army exercise, the scout called at Exeter\u2019s recruitment office. Before the door had shut behind him, he was met with a barked: \u201cARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE!?\u201d He stuttered, \u201cEr, I\u2019d like some explosives,\u201d in response. He was advised where he might find some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Engineers at Chatham didn\u2019t have any, so they said, and the WO2 from the Royal Marines who came to look at the edifice said that it was too close to property to be blown up; there would be multiple claims for shattered window panes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work was done instead by Plant Hire (Torbay) Ltd. and cost \u00a31,500, which even then was not a great sum. The owner of the firm had been in the tank regiment during the war and was fond of tracked machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two 360\u00b0 excavators worked for nearly a week to demolish the ferro-concrete structure, which measured 70 ft. x 12 ft. and was 30 ft. tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n