One of Our New Projects

New Track

The new track replacement program is a new project we started in October 2005. As the old track was not to badly worn, but we knew that the sleepers were in a very bad state around some areas of the club site.

Before we got to the stage of laying track there was a lot work done on finding the best way to replace the track. We looked at many way of doing the job, but we felt  "its got to look like a proper railway"

After some meeting our Club decided to use the 4lb a yard (4lb in weight a 3 foot long length)  flat bottom steel EN8 rail, and lay a reasonable length for evaluation. This started a new problem as we are dual gauge 5" & 7 1/4" on the ground.  How do we hold the 5" and the 7 1/4" rails with only a small gap between  the rails? Answer a special rail clip. The single rail clip was not designed by use, but  the 2 rail clip was. We looked at it and decided we could stretch it to accommodate the two rails side by side.   

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