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Post by 1972stock3567 on Mar 11, 2023 21:39:38 GMT
About the recent Bakerloo line and Watford DC line closure. TFL said in the email that the engineering works were due to infrastructure upgrades and over 6,000 new sleepers. I went last Sunday and looked down at the sleepers and there was no difference.... I am really confused.
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Post by rincew1nd on Mar 12, 2023 10:25:37 GMT
Maybe the worksite wasn't exactly where you were looking?
With about three sleepers per yard that means about 1⅛ could have been fully re-sleepered. If they did both tracks at once (perhaps because the drainage had damaged the sleepers on both lines) then that's only just over ½mile.
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Post by Chris M on Mar 12, 2023 10:38:38 GMT
You are also assuming that you can reliably tell the difference between new and old sleepers from a moving train, that may be travelling on the track supported by the replacement sleepers.
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Post by 1972stock3567 on Mar 12, 2023 13:41:33 GMT
I would have guessed that the old wooden sleepers I saw wouldn't be the new concrete ones I would have expected to see.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Mar 12, 2023 15:24:01 GMT
not a great pic but LU engineering train loaded with concrete sleepers in Queen's Park pfm.2, part of 7,000 sleepers replaced:  so they must have gone somewhere! |
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Post by 1972stock3567 on Mar 12, 2023 17:52:58 GMT
hmmmm.......
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Post by jimbo on Mar 26, 2023 4:38:42 GMT
[TfL Commissioner’s report - March 2023]
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