Five inch gap in track on East Coast mainline

[YorkshireBear]

Network rail said it was repaired and that no one was put at risk. BBC news somewhere posting from phone so cant get it up right now.

 

[Eccles]

Heard this on Radio York this morning as well!

BBC News here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-21379032

Edit:
Better photo here:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10215676.Six_inch_gap_on_125mph_railway_line/

 

[eMeS]

Radio York are reporting that another gap, this time a "six inch gap" appeared "near Selby" 3 weeks ago and that trains travelled "at over 100mph" over this gap....

Does anyone know from where the steel for the rails was sourced? UK with full documentation, or some other source...

 

[Trog]

Does anyone know from where the steel for the rails was sourced? UK with full documentation, or some other source...

Most rails for NR are rolled here in Britain it was done at Workington now Corby, with some imported from France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

 

[lincolnshire]

Most rails for NR are rolled here in Britain it was done at Workington now Corby, with some imported from France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

I think you will find its Scunthorpe that replaced Workington, as we if not they seem to be doing a lot of replacement of long welded rails in that are over the past couple of years.

 

[Trog]

I think you will find its Scunthorpe that replaced Workington, as we if not they seem to be doing a lot of replacement of long welded rails in that are over the past couple of years.

True, but in my defence one grim northern town looks much like another to those of us who live down south.

 

[YorkshireBear]

Theres grim parts up north and grim parts down south, thus there are some grim parts of Great Britain. Surely thats the end of that argument?

Hmm, im sure NR could do without these continually going public...

 

[dstrat]

How big is the gap that the train has to 'jump' at Newark flat crossing?

 

[LE Greys]

How big is the gap that the train has to 'jump' at Newark flat crossing?

No bigger than most other crossings, about an inch. You actually get a longer gap at the common crossing on a set of points, that's why some new sets have a swing-nose crossing instead. However, at no point is the wheel tread not supported by something.

 

[L&Y Robert]

I have never understood why rail joints are made between two cantelevered rail ends, drilled twice (3 times nowadays!) through the web right where the load is greatest. Why on earth are they not made over a support? A timber laid longitudinally parhaps, so that the vicious loading/unloading effect as a wheel passed over the joint would be eliminated. I have watched the delivery rail at a fish-plate joint be depressed by the on-coming load, so that the take-up rail presents a little step or ridge to the wheel, resulting in something like a hammer blow to it. The longitudinal timber I postulate would be equipped with a normal base-plate, then an elongated JOINT baseplate and finally another normal baseplate. This would spread the load, and minimise the tendancy for one rail-head to be depressed below the other. Normal timbering beyond, of course. I remember my "Peco" 00 guage fishplates were little U-section pockets into which the two rail-ends were slid. A 12" to the foot version of this, perhaps?

 

[DarloRich]

Does anyone know from where the steel for the rails was sourced? UK with full documentation, or some other source...

It comes from the Tata plant at Scunthorpe like almost every other rail on the infrastructure.