Next Gartell Light Railway Event of 2012

Our next open day of 2012 is on Jubilee Sunday 3rd June. First train leaves Common Lane at 10.30 with the last at 16.30. With the Pines buffet open all day, the shop, picnic area's & large FREE car park.

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

New track for the Somerset & Dorset

As noted on a previous post, I've had some broadband issues. Still here's a selection of photos from our weekend of track renew.
We removed the old track in complete panels. There Merlo came in very handy. Also, handy them coming out whole, as the plan as soon as the higher powers allow is to re-install them the other side of the hopeful new crossing at Common Lane.

Start of the relaying


Couple of John's lad from the business side helping out. Dan - the chap in the hi-vis only got back from his honeymoon a couple of day previous. Good Luck, matey
Plant & laser level technology. Tolerance to 00.01 of mm.
3/4 of the way there. Not re-ballasted yet but getting there.
As we re-levelled the track we found that the crossing needed redoing & we had 6 spare concretes left, so its now done past the crossing. Ready to do the next lot.


Where the track has been levelled, some parts now are 2 foot off of the original trackbed that was left.


Pretty much done. In total we dropped approx 48 ton of new ballast on this section.

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