PURBECK RAILWAY CIRCLE
Signal & Telegraph Dept. “Signalling the Link” A presentation by Mike Walshaw, Swanage Railway Signal & Telegraph Dept.
Network Rail Partnership. “Project Wareham” will see the Swanage Railway linked with the Main Line at Worgret Junction under a Swanage Railway – Network Rail Partnership.
Signalling Solutions Ltd Show No.2 We look at the work being done by Network Rail and its contractor Signalling Solutions Ltd at Wareham and on the Swanage Branch Line.
Re-Signalling Project, As part of the Poole to Wool Re-Signalling Project, Network Rail installed new crossover points at Wareham.
These dramatic pictures show the work done on the night of 24/25 October 2012
The track train waits on the Swanage Branch
The new crossover points, pre-assembled off-site
Wareham Signal Box is to the left Old track is lifted out. Wareham Signal Box is to the left
More track is lifted
Spent ballast is dug out
The new points are lifted into position
Hordes of workers get busy
More track is lifted
More spent ballast is lifted out
New ballast is shovelled into place
The track lining and tamping machine gets to work
The finished job ready for the next day’s trains The finished job ready for the next day’s trains. But trains cannot yet cross over!
In December 2012, Network Rail renewed the points at Worgret Junction, where the Swanage Branch leaves the Main Line
Here are the points at Worgret Junction before renewal Here are the points at Worgret Junction before renewal. The Ground Lever Frame is in the tin shelter!
Engineers’ trains wait on the Main Line
Men at work at the Ground Frame
Heavy machinery at work digging out ballast
Rails are cut and lifted
Confusion reigns!
Spent ballast is dug out
Ballast is spread
Ballast is levelled.
The tamping machine at work
Just testing with a Class 66 loco!
Equipment Cabinets Swanage Railway Network Rail have also installed Signals and Equipment Cabinets on the Branch Line for the link with the Swanage Railway
This will be the new Up Distant Signal near the Bridge over the River Frome.
This is where the signal is located This is where the signal is located. The Bridge over the River Frome is in the background
At Wareham there is a Token Instrument Cabinet on each platform
On the Down Platform
And on the Up Platform
The Token Instrument Cabinet is the larger one
Photo credits: Andrew P.M. Wright, and Mike Walshaw
Token Block Signalling System between Norden and Wareham Show No.3 will highlight the work done by the Staff of the Swanage Railway to introduce the new Token Block Signalling System between Norden and Wareham