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Title: Meet Britain's longest train - the ballast cleaner Post by: Chris from Nailsea on January 28, 2015, 00:33:11 A video news report, from the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31010111):
Quote Meet Britain's longest train - the ballast cleaner The "longest train in Britain" is working through the night to replace ballast on the Norwich to London line so speeds of 110mph can be reached. Working overnight to minimise disruption to train travellers, engineers for Network Rail use a massive "ballast cleaner train" to remove the broken chippings underneath the tracks and replace them with more robust material. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |