OzzyO
Western Thunderer
Hello all,
a bit of a change from the tender build.
This has been a bit of a long term job as the Pway and S&T departments have not been able to decide who should do the job. The S&T say that it should be them as it's a power signal box, the Pway department say that it should be them as it involves them. Anyway after a twelve month dispute they have started work on the new power box.
The first job was to lay in the new power cable (the white one) to the switch box,
Then onto the foundations for the power box, you can see the piles that had to put in to support the weight of the box, you can see the old track bed in this photo. The Pway department did the job a couple of years ago with no problems as this slip was worked by the old manual box,
The line manager came down to see how work was progressing, he was not that happy to see all of the spoil and the land slip on the line. As this is the junction between four intensively used main lines,
At the moment all of the services are have to use the two old lines, at some times they have to use "bang" line running,
But they did manage to get the gauging train loco down (but not the test train), this is a shot of it heading back to its home shed,
The interior of the new power box. Due to delays in the supply of parts (a four way screw terminal that will fit where the blue line is) this can not be fitted just yet, the high power unit is installed on it base outside of the power box as can be seen in some of the photos,
The next job will be to fit the A.T.C. sensors between the running rails, there has been a long discussion between the S&T department and the C.M.E. as to the location for the track sensors and the pick-up gear on the locos, this is still on going.
OzzyO.
a bit of a change from the tender build.
This has been a bit of a long term job as the Pway and S&T departments have not been able to decide who should do the job. The S&T say that it should be them as it's a power signal box, the Pway department say that it should be them as it involves them. Anyway after a twelve month dispute they have started work on the new power box.
The first job was to lay in the new power cable (the white one) to the switch box,
Then onto the foundations for the power box, you can see the piles that had to put in to support the weight of the box, you can see the old track bed in this photo. The Pway department did the job a couple of years ago with no problems as this slip was worked by the old manual box,
The line manager came down to see how work was progressing, he was not that happy to see all of the spoil and the land slip on the line. As this is the junction between four intensively used main lines,
At the moment all of the services are have to use the two old lines, at some times they have to use "bang" line running,
But they did manage to get the gauging train loco down (but not the test train), this is a shot of it heading back to its home shed,
The interior of the new power box. Due to delays in the supply of parts (a four way screw terminal that will fit where the blue line is) this can not be fitted just yet, the high power unit is installed on it base outside of the power box as can be seen in some of the photos,
The next job will be to fit the A.T.C. sensors between the running rails, there has been a long discussion between the S&T department and the C.M.E. as to the location for the track sensors and the pick-up gear on the locos, this is still on going.
OzzyO.