Network Rail has finalized a four year maintenance programme on the railways serving Yorkshire. Network Rail’s Track Renewal System (TRS) has replaced around 250 miles of track across Yorkshire and the routes which serve it, including on the East Coast Main Line. The system has worked all over the region, including Leeds, Hull, York and Sheffield.
The track relaying system carries out the following in a continuous process: unclips the old sleeper fastenings and removes them from the track; removes the old rail from the sleeper housings; removes the old sleepers from the track; levels off the ballast bed and displaces the material to the side of the track; places the new sleepers on the prepared ballast bed and spaces them correctly; positions the new rail onto the new sleepers; fastens the new rail to the new sleepers; collects the old ballast and distributes it back to the newly installed track. The £40m (46,5 million euros) high-tech train is over a third of a mile long and typically relays between half a mile of track per shift.
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