At least there is now a bit more room for the next lorry / agency / flip flop driver, I wonder if he had time to get a pint in whilst he was waiting for the walls to be lubed up.
The ‘T’ must of dropped off the front of the lorry! 
123smith:
The ‘T’ must of dropped off the front of the lorry!
Look up the definition of berk in the dictionary.
Fincham:
123smith:
The ‘T’ must of dropped off the front of the lorry!Look up the definition of berk in the dictionary.
Yeh but it’s a DAF lorry not a BER and that would mean a ‘K’ had dropped off and not a ‘T’, unless the driver was called Bert. 
Have had a cracking Sunday lunch in that pub.
peirre:
I suspect someone will have said the immortal words
“we’ve had bigger than that down ere driver” …
Actually I have taken something bigger up and down there; wagon and drag with Moffett, but I did go straight across the crossroads. 
In fact the road between the house he hit and The Bull is actually the only way to get in and out of Streatley without going through the weight limits!!
Why is the number plate blacked out ?
. . . did the driver do it, when the local papparazi (spolling) arrived.?
Looks like an ex Texel motor btw.
trucken:
peirre:
I suspect someone will have said the immortal words
“we’ve had bigger than that down ere driver” …Actually I have taken something bigger up and down there; wagon and drag with Moffett, but I did go straight across the crossroads.
Is there a weight limit on the skew rail bridge by the Beale Trust as it looks as though he came from that direction? You can still use the downs road to Wantage/ Rowstock/Harwell/Blewbury but of course the A329 old Oxford Road towards Wallingford (about half a mile from that crossroads) is weight restricted.
Pete.
It’s a maze of weight limits around there. A 17t limit at Fair Mile where the madhouse hospital used to be, the A417 has one that starts about half a mile from where that happened, and I’m sure there’s another towards Goring.
There used to be an exemption of the Fair Mile limit due to Goring railway bridge being weak but that was rebuilt a few years ago.
If you want to find lorry haters Goring/Streatley are the places to go.
Forgive me if I’m wrong ?
He had already been over a 7.5t limit bridge where the A329 goes over railway line
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blue estate:
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I thought that bridge still had a limit on it, I know the one near Moulsford has.
Pete.
Yes it has. 7.5 t with no exceptions as has both the A417 and A329, for a 50 yard stretch, to the west of Streatley.
trucken:
Yes it has. 7.5 t with no exceptions as has both the A417 and A329, for a 50 yard stretch, to the west of Streatley.
I’ve just put a route from Woodstock to the Bull pub at Streatley in on Oxfordshire Freight Gateway, and it says to use the A329 into Streatley.
malcolmgbell:
I don’t understand y they put houses so close to corners,u would think they would of planed it a little better than they have, I no land is at a premium right now but that close ,come on planers sort it out
Same reason as farmers always put the gate by the muddiest bit of the field.
There is indeed a weight limit for that bridge, but I think (not sure) it looks like he might have been turning left to go up streatly. Which would be comming from pangbourne which would be fine I believe. I only live in Newbury down the road and cycle this way all the time and streatly is not a hill you want to be taking a lorry up if you can avoid (in parts it gets to above 25%), going down it would be death. There are plenty of ways around which are now where near as tight. The pictures don’t do it justice to how tight it is up there.
Arborist:
There is indeed a weight limit for that bridge, but I think (not sure) it looks like he might have been turning left to go up streatly. Which would be comming from pangbourne which would be fine I believe. I only live in Newbury down the road and cycle this way all the time and streatly is not a hill you want to be taking a lorry up if you can avoid (in parts it gets to above 25%), going down it would be death. There are plenty of ways around which are now where near as tight. The pictures don’t do it justice to how tight it is up there.
Well if coming from Pangbourne then he must have gone over the weight limited rail bridge by Child-Beale? 
Unless he came down via Upper Basildon of course.
Pete.
malcolmgbell:
I don’t understand y they put houses so close to corners,u would think they would of planed it a little better than they have, I no land is at a premium right now but that close ,come on planers sort it out
When the Bull was built back in the 15th Century, they probably hadn’t considered the possibility of 44t artics!
trucken:
malcolmgbell:
I don’t understand y they put houses so close to corners,u would think they would of planed it a little better than they have, I no land is at a premium right now but that close ,come on planers sort it outWhen the Bull was built back in the 15th Century, they probably hadn’t considered the possibility of 44t artics!
No… An ors’ n cart 
trucken:
When the Bull was built back in the 15th Century, they probably hadn’t considered the possibility of 44t artics!
Typical blooming planners, no forward thinking! 
Pete.
windrush:
Arborist:
There is indeed a weight limit for that bridge, but I think (not sure) it looks like he might have been turning left to go up streatly. Which would be comming from pangbourne which would be fine I believe. I only live in Newbury down the road and cycle this way all the time and streatly is not a hill you want to be taking a lorry up if you can avoid (in parts it gets to above 25%), going down it would be death. There are plenty of ways around which are now where near as tight. The pictures don’t do it justice to how tight it is up there.Well if coming from Pangbourne then he must have gone over the weight limited rail bridge by Child-Beale?
Pete.
Looks like he has come from Pangbourne, and how those lights are set and the house opposite the pub it would be hard to get enough over to get round. The A329 lights are green both ways at the same time so making it even more difficult.
Skew bridge has a 7.5t limit on it, although I think its for the NIMBY’s as its a new bridge built a lot stronger than some others I’ve seen that allow all weights. Think its a throw back to the old bridge. Same as the 18t limits on that road, they are only 100 yards long The same NIMBY’s stopped the deliveries of some of the steel work due to its size on those roads, I know they don’t want the electrification works to be done, but that prolonged the works due to the distance we had to travel on track with the steel from the nearest permissable access point.
So glad we’ve finished that stretch of the railway job we’re doing, was a long correct route to get from Didcot to Pangbourne station, especially at the end of the shift