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Network Rail has confirmed the amount of work needed to reopen the Gospel Oak to Barking line after a freight train derailed.
Over a 2 and a half-mile stretch of the railway, Network Rail has confirmed that they need to replace:
- 39 new pieces of rail, 216m long each
- 5,300 concrete sleepers
- 900 wooden sleepers
- 10,000 tonnes of ballast needs to be removed and replaced after track relayed.
- 10 longitudinal timbered bridges to have replacement custom-timbers installed.
A full schedule of repairs is still being finalised by Network Rail but the work programme is expected to take a number of weeks with the line part-suspended.
What did the officials say?
Ellie Burrows, Network Rail's route director for Anglia said:
“I'd like to say sorry to all our passengers whose journeys are disrupted by this incident. Our engineers will be working around the clock to get the line open as quickly as possible. I also want to thank our lineside neighbours for their patience while we carry out this important work and we will aim to keep disruption to a minimum.”
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A Gwilt
IF you bother to read RAIB reports, you will find that, recently, there seems to have been a pattern of poorly maintained freight wagons, with “bits dropping off” – which then snag underneath & do neither the train nor the track any good at all.
I do also note the very old pattern of clip used to secure the FB rails though.
Wow! What poor quality old and life-expired sleeper.
So what has caused the freight train to derail on the GOBLIN Line in North London. Poor track defects or points failure. Or was the freight train travelling at high speed and somehow derailed. And the train driver could of failed to spot the problem which ended in a derailment of the freight train.
I have to say the condition of those sleepers looks dreadful, let alone the rest of the repairs required. When was this last maintained?
Sleepers look to be in poor condition to start with.