Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Trouble on the GOBLIN
A freight train has derailed at Walthamstow Queens Road.
The view on Rail UK Forums is that the line has been damaged for over two miles, which is probably why they've reported it at Leyton Midland Road.
Looks like London Overground have got their act together quickly and are running Gospel Oak-South Tottenham, with severe delays.
... Find another way to get to North East London (Victoria Line to Walthamstow for a bus onward is being offered - obviously Blackhorse Road is covered by the Vic too)
No photos yet for those so inclined, but I'm sure one will appear pretty soon.
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Permalink Reply by Dave W on
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Exacerbated, probably, by the need to get freight through on the unaffected Down line, which will be part of the plan.
RUK now saying damage is around four miles. Loathe to speculate, naturally, but the train hadn’t got very far when the derailment occurred in that case... so surely an existing wagon issue rather than an issue with the track - although of course a lot of derailments are a mixture of the both.
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More detail - 2 1/2 miles of track and eight bridges damaged.
"Just after 6am on Thursday 23 January, a freight wagon derailed between Leyton Midland Road and Walthamstow Queens Road on the Gospel Oak to Barking line which has caused extensive damage over a two and a half mile stretch with a number of sleepers completely split in half. Eight bridges were also damaged along with signalling and other essential equipment that is used for running trains.
Engineers are starting to remove the damaged track and equipment but owing to the extent of the damage, a full schedule of repairs is still being finalised. An update will be provided early next week, once contractors and key supplies are confirmed."
Full update Friday 24th from Network Rail here.
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A further update from Network Rail (press release here):
The full extent of the damage is emerging but we have assessed that over a two and a half mile stretch, we need to replace:
• 39 new pieces of rail, 216m long each
• 5,300 concrete sleepers
• 900 wooden sleepers
• 10,000 tonnes of ballast needs to be removed and replaced after track relayed.
• 10 longitudinal timbered bridges to have replacement custom-timbers installed***.
A full schedule of repairs is still being finalised but the complex work programme is expected to take a number of weeks with the line part-suspended.*** That's the toughest problem, I think - see below.
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Well you can forget 10th Feb with the longitudinal timbers broken like that.
You might even have to forget February altogether.
6,200 sleepers!!!
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... And it might be longer still than that again. A freight train has derailed down at Eastleigh near Southampton causing severe damage to the track.
Sadly for the GOBLIN, the South West Main Line is strategically more important, and so some equipment and resource is probably going to find itself being whisked from E17 to the south coast...
Great fun.
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Different circumstances, possibly involving signalling I suppose, but the Rail Accident Investigation Branch has already tweeted about their preliminary investigation into that one. No such info (yet?) about RAIB looking at the GOBLIN incident, five days on.
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Maestro, your task is sourcing 30 cm x 30 cm x 10 m decay-resistant pressure-treated timbers (x 20 or so) at no notice - go for it! Then you dismantle the track, and repair the other wheel impact damage on the ten bridges' steel decking, and replace. Not a Homebase quick fix.
A few years ago, a single such piece of timber fell apart on the skew bridge over the St Ann's Road/Seven Sisters Rd junction - I recall the line was shut for three days. Repairing 10 such bridges - well...
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Line to reopen in full on Wednesday 19th February.
Mammoth effort by the Orange Army, especially in light of the recent weather.
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/update-gospel-oak-to-...
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