Pop quiz on rail

Gabor Kovacs · Post by **Gabor Kovacs** » 10 Jul 2009, 23:00

What is wrong in the two attached pictures?

Answer correctly, and you be honoured with the title of "Rail Nutâ€ for the coming week.

Dylan Knott · Post by **Dylan Knott** » 10 Jul 2009, 23:08

Rail not connected to sleeper?

Luca Lategan · Post by **Luca Lategan** » 10 Jul 2009, 23:09

There is no rail fastner on the sleeper?

Gabor Kovacs · Post by **Gabor Kovacs** » 10 Jul 2009, 23:26

Sorry guys, Iâ€™m still battling to upload the second pic!

Pic #2 to follow ASAP

Gabor Kovacs · Post by **Gabor Kovacs** » 10 Jul 2009, 23:33

Here with is the second picture!

Try again!

Dylan Knott · Post by **Dylan Knott** » 10 Jul 2009, 23:34

Wheel slip. wear and tear. wtf?

Luca Lategan · Post by **Luca Lategan** » 11 Jul 2009, 08:24

Yes, the railhead is totally misformed

Adelbert Stigling · Post by **Adelbert Stigling** » 11 Jul 2009, 11:53

To me it look as if a lot of clips on the right hand rail has given way and caused a derailment with the wheels slipping off the left hand rail

Derek Walker · Post by **Derek Walker** » 11 Jul 2009, 12:39

An accident looking for a place to happen

Gabor Kovacs · Post by **Gabor Kovacs** » 11 Jul 2009, 22:51

Derek Walker wrote:An accident looking for a place to happen

Derek, you are quite right - an accident waiting to happen!

Dylan Knott wrote:Rail not connected to sleeper?

and,

Luca Lategan wrote:There is no rail fastner on the sleeper?

Very observant you both!

The term that I'm probably looking for was and if I'm correct is; Rail-head flange wear.

This is caused by the flanges of trains running "hard-up" against the rail-head, when taking a moderate curve/s at speed. The wear in the second photograph is about Â¾" wide, by almost 1" deep. Now, I would like to learn from the "experts", - and that is how much more flange wear can occur on the rail-head, before either it is deemed unsafe or as Derek rightly points out - "an accident waiting to happen!"??

What surprises me the most is that this line is probably only 10 or so years old, and by the number of missing or broken "rail-clips", why TFR has not yet done anything about doing repairs to this particular section of line. Not even temporary speed restrictions are in place, as I witnessed a diesel frieght power around this curve, well in excess of 65km/h.
This particular section of line is also littered with spun wheel marks, and to a lesser degree on the same section of the line, the rail-head has burred over where wheels have spun is a stationary position!

One wonders sometimes, how safe is our National network really?

Derek Walker · Post by **Derek Walker** » 12 Jul 2009, 16:38

Gabor,

If this is the line to Magalies then Reefsteamers needs to know about it, they run passenger trains on that line and its downright shocking that this has been allowed to continue, I am sure damage like that doesnt happen overnight. Can you please PM me the location so that I can pass it on to RS.

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