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Laying sleepers with a rail-mountable loader.
Volunteers supervised by Paul Hawley (Operations Manager - standing knee-akimbo on the wagon) and Jim Poulton (S&T Manager - foreground, left.) |
| Frank Twine (P-Way Manager) checks the seating of the rail just
laid by DS414, the ex-Woking 10-ton steam crane .
We started the day three feet from the wagon in the distance, and set and fishplated fifteen pairs. Clips to be fitted and alignment adjusted in the following days. |
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| The crane lowers its jib under a road-bridge.
Not a third rail: it's the next length for laying. |
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Rails are aligned with jack and hammer.
Paul and Ian fit a fishplate, tightening the nuts with a petrol-driven impact spanner. |
| Wickham trolley for the people, and 08 diesel for the materials |  |
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Last sleepers.  |
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