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Severn Tunnel track upgrades - June 2023
📹 Behind-the-scenes look at Severn Tunnel track upgrades ...
Here's how engineers installed 3.2km of new track, 5,200 new sleepers and 13,000 tonnes of ballast - over 10 days - in one of the most challenging environments on our railway:
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Those Bance cars are fantastic! Shame my yard cant hold of them!
Keep up the good work Network Rail. You should still electrify from Cardiff Central to Swansea to allow Class 800 and Class 802 to run fully electric.
Safety First.
Great video, but as GregElkin said, remove the music next time please.
Great work orange 🍊 army 👍🏻
Aye nice
Why not use one of those Swiss maintenance train that do all the work in one big swoop as it goes along the track? Wouldn't that be much quicker and more efficient? Might be more expensive, but the closure would perhaps only be 1-2 days, and not 10. There is a huge savings for everyone there.
@danielwalls5150
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We do have a maintenance train that can do that but it cannot work in the tunnel due to clearance issues.
@sjokomelk
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@@danielwalls5150 I keep forgetting that the British loading gauge is very narrow and low compared to other countries.
@danielwalls5150
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@@sjokomelk it’s not the loading gauge (which admittedly is much smaller as you said), it’s the dimensions. The train we use has parts that move in from the side and above, which are not possible in the Severn tunnel’s space.
No music please! Or tone it down in the mix
Would directing the moisture dripping off the walls away from the railbed be something to consider?
what's the current state of "the great spring" (and can you even see anything down there these days?)
Any thoughts about building a new tunnel to modern standards?
@iangascoigne8231
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I would imagine for the cost of building a new tunnel, you’ll be able to do a lot of rail changes when required. The old cost benefit analysis.
is the new track continuously welded, or legacy?
@formidable38
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All of it is continuously welded rail.
Lose the bloody annoying totally unnecessary added music. had to watch with the sound off and auto generated subtitles to follow the speakers.
@Transpennine
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Honestly!
Even good music is irritating as background music, and this is not good music. And it's far too loud.