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Cleaning Ballast - Why do they need to do this?
- Subject: Cleaning Ballast - Why do they need to do this?
- From: Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:09:59 +1000
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: New Wave Logistics Australia
- Reply-To: jonlau@ozemail.com.au
There was trackwork on the North Shore line last weekend and I saw them
digging out the Down shore line at the new St. Leonards station.
The track in that area is relatively new (i.e concrete sleepers) and I'm
sure they did the same thing when they put in concrete sleepers in about
12 months ago.
A large section of track was removed and old ballast and ground
underneath the track was then dug out and placed onto the waiting works
train hauled by 8177/4874.
Why do they need to do this?
Jon Lau