Sunday, 7 June 2015

A second post? Already?

Here are a few pictures that we have collected in the past 2 years or so. Just the odd snap to show you what our little jobs entail!
 Because of our mainline connection we are lucky enough to have occasional visits to the DFR by various mainline tampers. This enables both the crews to get training off the mainline, and to get our track tamped to a quality that would take forever and a day with basic kit.

 Here we see a winters job of resleepering the south point of Whitecroft. This is a precursor to installing a run round loop at the station in order to expand our running timetable. As you can see it was a wet old job this, I think it was one of the drier days.

 A basic sleeper replacement in the headshunt leading to Dean Forest Diesels. The location next to a set of fish-plates made this job a lot easier!

 Last summer a monster ballast drop utilising a class 14 and roughly our entire Dogfish fleet.

 A spot of packing on just south of Goatfield curve.

And finally we have probably our most useful bit of kit on the railway. Before we obtained this, work on the line away from stations involved either a long walk or organising a dedicated works train as the the railways Wickham trolley is currently undergoing restoration. This Geismar just requires a line possession and 4 people to lift it onto the line. Simple!

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