Heavy bridge slide stalls as transporters sink into mud

Installation of a replacement railway bridge on the outskirts of Bristol has stalled after heavy lift transporters became mired in boggy ground.Contractor Alun Griffiths was edging the 4,260t replacement bridge into place when the two Osprey self-propelled transporters sank into the mud 30m short of their final position.The contractor is now racing against time to solve the problem so it can reinstate rail journeys from Bristol to Wales which were disrupted when the original Gipsy Patch Lane rail bridge was demolished to make way for the weekend bridge replacement.Two dozers were drafted in to try to shunt the transporters forward but these are understood to have failed to budge it.Network Rail had said prior to the weekend it was due to reopen next Saturday, but the disruption is now expected to continue for longer than originally anticipated.