Measuring Train

[bananapieface]

Ross1988 said:

bananapieface said:

Ross1988 said:

bananapieface said:

Ross1988 said:

I've seen the lines, never knew thats where they came from.

What do you do Banana?

S&T Section Supervisor.

Ah right, i'm currently studying engineering at Sheffield with the aim of doing the network rail course they offer, with the final target of either getting into civils or S & T

Civils the as the S&T are getting decimated after April.

Whats happening to the S&T? I've not rally had much to do with it in my line of work (Surveyor)

Really enjoy the civils though. Wont they need S & T for cross rail and HS2?

1500 jobs going in maintenance and retarded T&Cs coming in shortly, I would say CR and HS2 will be contracted out work, Network Rail is going to be fked over by the people in charge of the maintenance org over the next 12 months - I can almost guarantee a big derailment in the next couple of years.

[zollburgers]

I've found my video of the 'uber train of doom'. I did have to remove it from Youtube as it wasn't popular with Network Rail people but all is forgiven now. It was a while ago and I never blamed them for working hard, just for the lack of notice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfXR_Dq9Q0

[bananapieface]

zollburgers said:

I've found my video of the 'uber train of doom'. I did have to remove it from Youtube as it wasn't popular with Network Rail people but all is forgiven now. It was a while ago and I never blamed them for working hard, just for the lack of notice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfXR_Dq9Q0

You saw this........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFWdKhz8tM

[Ross1988]

My internet in my halls is horrific so i gave up wasting my afternoon on youtube, but i got to see the tamper.

Amazing pieces of kit really.

Can imagine how amazing they are at 1pm monday morning when your in bed though.

Spent a few quiet nights checking there work. Easy shifts for us lot :-)

[useyourdellusion]

^^Yeah. Let us take the strain! .

A good tamper crew needs techs that know their stuff and vice versa...

That access point at Winsford is a sod too, the one buried in the housing estate?! Got lost a few times trying to find that!

[Ross1988]

I'm from winsford, but i've never accessed there, i presume its either through a industrial estate.

Or through the housing estate over a bridge?

Aye i agree, been on tamping shifts with techs that don't know there arse from there elbow, and 300m of station tamping has taken 12+

But a decent tamping crew and i'm asleep most of the shift...

What do you do UYD?

[Pkh72]

williamp said:

When I travel into Derby there is always all sorts of strange devices on the tracks. Would love to know what they all do..

I work there, some interesting kit floating about.
There are trains that test the condition of the rails (for cracks & fatigue etc), sleepers, ballast, overhead wires, gauging on tunnels, bridges and platforms etc, radio signals and stuff like that.
We look after some rail grinders too, they reprofile the rails back in to some kind of shape.
I'm not that technically minded so some of the technical & computer equipment on these is really impressive.