the winter weather made further work difficult, and the b&glosr line was in difficulty also; however its contractor, woodward, undertook to complete the northern half of that line (which the a&gr needed, in order to receive the coalpit heath coal) by 1 august. the b&glosr and its contractor were evidently delaying matters, and threats of legal sanctions by the a&gr company were required to force action by them; this resulted in the physical connection at the junction of the two lines at mangotsfield being made ready on 5 june 1831; but the b&glosr line onward to the pits at coalpit heath was not yet ready.