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The depot was opened in 1848 as a carriage works by the LB&SCR, being converted in 1933 to an EMU depot by the Southern Railway. At that time, it had adjoining five and seven-track dead-ended buildings. [4] In 1987, the depot's allocation included class 421, 422 and 423 EMUs. [2]
A spike puller can be seen on the right side of this image. A spike puller is a railroad maintenance of way machine designed to remove rail spikes from ties. [1] The spike puller automates the task of spike removal, allowing it to be done at a rate greater than can be achieved by hand.
Norfolk and Western Railway (NW) Northern Pacific Railway (NP) Northern Railway of Canada (NRC) Penn Central (PC) Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Pontchartrain Railroad; Pontiac and Detroit Railroad; Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR) Raleigh and Gaston Railroad; Reading Railroad (RDG) St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway [15] San Antonio ...
Oxley Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway depot located in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, operated by Alstom to maintain Avanti West Coast's British Rail Class 390 Pendolino stock for the West Coast Main Line.
On rail lines which include electrification by a third rail or an overhead line system, maintenance of way work also includes installing, repairing and replacing these systems. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Overhead line electrification while complex, is a task that with proper planning, done from trains on existing rail lines.
A maintenance equipment shed stands at the entrance to the former interchange yard at Ferrum on the Eagle Mountain Railroad (c. 2006) Ferrum was the location of a five track yard that was used to interchange with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Also located at Ferrum is a wye (still connected) and
A ballast regulator (also known as a ballast spreader or ballast sweeper) is a piece of railway maintenance equipment used to shape and distribute the gravel track ballast that supports the ties in rail tracks. They are often used in conjunction with ballast tampers when maintaining track.
A copy of the 2002 edition of the National Routeing Guide. The railway network of Great Britain is operated with the aid of a number of documents, which have been sometimes termed "technical manuals", [1] because they are more detailed than the pocket-timetables which the public encounters every day.