Broad gauge (7' 0.25") cross-sleepered track. Didcot Railway Centre. 6th July 2005.
Broad gauge (7' 0.25") baulk road track. Didcot Railway Centre. 6th July 2005.
A special chair for joining broad gauge bridge rail to bullhead rail. Didcot Railway Centre. 6th July 2005.
Broad gauge baulk road with pipe for atmospheric traction. Didcot Railway Centre. 6th July 2005.
Internal view of the atmospheric pipe. 28th June 2008.
A section of broad gauge bridge rail.
A section of broad gauge Barlow rail.
Barlow rail in use at Didcot. 28th June 2008.
Standard gauge to mixed gauge point at Didcot. 28th June 2008.
Mixed gauge baulk road pointwork at Didcot. 28th June 2008.
Mixed gauge wagon turntable preserved at Didcot. 28th June 2008.
Early fish bellied rail.
Cross section of a typical length of flat bottomed rail.
Maker's mark on a section of flat bottomed rail on the Sheffield Supertram.
Examples of contemporary London Underground track with "silent" track on the right.
A section of original bridge rail from the Brill Tramway. Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, 21st April 2003.
Many years before steel-sleepered track became common in Britain the GWR experimented with it. This short section was still in situ at Gloucester's Llanthony Dock on 16th April 1991.
A GWR steel sleeper with cast iron chairs.
Modern steel sleepered track for flat bottomed rail with Pandrol Fastclips.
Fishplate for joining flat bottomed rail.
Fishplate for joining bullhead rail to flat bottomed rail.
Welded (Thermit) joint between bullhead and flat bottomed rail.
GKN patent track system.
GKN patent track system.
Clamp Lock (hydraulic) point mechanism.
Clamp Lock (hydraulic) point mechanism.
Alstom HW type electro-mechnical point mechanism.
An example of a HPSS point.
A farbicated bullhead crossing.
Catch point at Didcot. 28th June 2008.
A weighted point lever.
A weighted point lever
Standard BR(W) chair from 1967.
LNWR chair from 1906.
LNWR rail joint chair from 1906.
A Midland Railway chair from 1889. This was unearthed on part of the Tuffley Loop line in Gloucester, some 15 years after the line had closed. Presumably it had been discarded in the 19th centuary because it was broken.
The same chair in "as found" condition.
A pair of joint chairs in situ at Verney Junction.
Special chair for use on bridges where the rails are supported on longitudinal baulks.
Brand new 2006 dated chair.
Southern Railway chair dated 1930.
1909 Midland Railway chair.
1920 Great Northern Railway chair.
GWR chair.
1903 London & South Western Railway chair.
Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway chair from 1905.
Unpainted GW&GC Joint Railway chair.
London & North Western Railway chair from 1892
LNER turnout chair from 1925
Metropolitan & Great Central Joint Line chair from 1911.
Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway chair from 1905.
Cheshire Lines Committee chair.
Modern BR chair dated 1989.
BR check rail chair.
BR chair for use on fabricated rail buffer stops.
Great Eastern Railway chair dated 1892.
Great Eastern Railway chair dated 1915.
Great Eastern Railway joint chair dated 1907.
Hull & Barnsley Railway chair.
London & South Western Railway chair.
London & South Western Railway chair dated 1878.
Metropolitan & Great Central Joint Railway chair dated 1908.
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway chair dated 1894.
South Eastern & Chatham Railway chair dated 1920.
South Eastern Railway chair dated 1898.
Great Central Railway chair dated 1912.
District Railway chair dated 1906.
Great Northern Railway joint chair from 1916.
A rare example of a chair with company and casting date on the bottom. Either Midland or Metropolitan Railway.
The GWR favoured bolts for fixing chairs to sleepers, rather than the more common screws or spikes. The Western Region of BR continued using this method as seen on this 1957 example.
The base of a BR(W) chair showing the serrations for gripping the sleeper that are unique to these bolted chairs.
The underside of a sleeper with bolted chairs showing the bolts and washers.
Two different designs of washer for gripping the underside of sleepers in conjunction with GWR-type bolted chairs.
A GWR/BR(W) chair showing the whole assembly.
BR(W) Concrete sleepers with bolted chairs for bullhead rail.
BR(W) 1950 bolted chair for concrete sleepers.
Standard BR track screw for fixing chairs and baseplates to timber sleepers.
Metal key for fixing bullhead rail into chairs.
SHC square ended rail fixing.
SHC "V" ended rail fixing.
Sleeper fixings for SHC clips.
BJB flat bottomed rail fixing.
BJB and Pandrol PR fixings being used in tandem.
BJB fixing without the clip showing the securing grooves.
Larger type of bottom plate for a BJB rail fixing.
BJB clip.
Detail of an Elastic spike for flat bottomed rail.
Baseplate and Elastic spikes for flat bottomed rail on timber sleepers.
Another design of baseplate that uses elastic spikes on one side only.
Macbeth type of track clip and baseplate.
Mills clip and baseplate for flat bottomed rail.
Mills clip.
ST clip and baseplate for flat bottomed rail.
Pandrol "PR" clip.
Pandrol "PR" clips in situ.
A standard, brown painted Pandrol "PR" clip on the left and a left handed, blue "PR" clip on the right.
Pandrol "e" clip.
A Pandrol "e" clip in situ.
Baseplate and Pandrol "e" clips for timber sleepers.
Baseplate and Pandrol "PR" clips for timber sleepers. This type of baseplate is fixed to the sleeper with clips rather than bolts.
A comparison between a Pandrol "PR" clip (left) and a Pandrol "e" clip (right).
Pandrol "Fastclip".
Pandrol "Fastclips" in situ.
A joint between conventional bullhead rail and tramway section rail. Cleveleys, Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway.
Tramway turnout. Cleveleys, Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway.
Tramway turnout detail. Cleveleys, Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway.
x05_Hydraulic buffer stops at Crewe.
Vossloh SN Sleeper Anchors
Track expansion joint.
An example of a re-railer.
An example of a flange greaser.
An experimental water spray system for reducing flange squeal, installed at Barnt Green.
Yellow paint left by one of Network Rail's track recording trains to indicate a section that requires attention.
London Underground single hydraulic buffer stop, Ealing Broadway.
Simple hydraulic buffer stops at Rugby.
Rawie friction buffer stops at Aylesbury Vale Parkway.
Additional friction stops used with a Rawie friction buffer stop.
