It was a really nice day today and I was in the park taking pictures anyway so I paid another visit to the lump.
Looking up at the pipe you can see the cut off pipe, the T section iron work below the pipe and the remains of a support rod;
Looking over to the structure on the opposite bank and there is the same pipe, T section and a longer remaining section of support rod in the same configuration.
There is talk of a steam injector pipe half way up. The only pipe half way up is this one;
Im no steam engineer but injector pipe says to me small bore to maintain high pressure but this pipe was of similar diameter to the pipe at the top of the column.
I also got a shot onto the hole below the top pipe;
The column looks solid with iron top piece to fix the metal work to and no sign of a void running vertically through the middle.
Looking at the type of concrete used I cant work out how you would build the internal features into a retort that is solid, poured concrete;
I wonder as well if this is the modern water main running over the river bed;
As far as the TDOC engineer goes,I find it strange that when his website states the features purpose (pipe bridge) as a fact, states its reason for removal as a fact and states the date at which it was removed as a fact but he now says it could be something else.
Dave