Permanent Way - The Backbone of the Railway

What’s a railway without rails? In today’s episode we take a walk along the line to find out how the Permanent Way department ensures that your journey has a smooth ride.
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[@lewissavory6651]

loving the tiny keying hammer

[@johnairs2735]

There's a lot of maintenance required on the railway especially with jointed bullhead track. But the sound as the trains roll by is worth it.

[@jakobrebeki]

used to work for BR then known as SWT. Worked as a guard then as a second man on night engineering. helped to lay in wloo international, the big bridge, mitre jcn and other stuff as well. Miss that job....

[@lynnthrop7544]

Dedication is superb on this delightful railway line. 😊x

[@JakeyG-eq1un]

Very nice

[@rugbyrailtracklevel2902]

Nice video. Quite informative..currently on a level 2 6-8 week rail engineering and track maintenance course at Rugby college so absorbing similar vids to these complementing our studies

[@martinbutler9999]

Neglect your PW, And it will come back to bite you very severely, As other railways have found out recently , Its probably one of the most important bits on the railway, but does need to be kept up to scratch

[@JintySteam1]

This must have been a challenge for your camera man walking backwards all that time.

[@ldhumph70]

Hard hats??

[@MrEddiebbb]

Overhead risk ?

[@underwaterdick]

Well, I would guess they don't need them seeing as it's not under network rail control. Maybe their local rules don't require them? But truthfully, if you are going to pick holes, I would be more concerned about them walking in the 4 foot, standing next to the lookout and filming whilst walking along the line. Of course its more than likely that there were not trains running and they knew this.