Railtrack - Repair of Wet Beds

[@colliecandle]

Nice to see the 'wet bed' problem filmed - memories of Amey Rail work back in that time when i was fitter and a lot younger !

[@Richardsrailway]

L&P and booked tamper on your section plus good ballast profile and condition shouldn’t give you a wet bed . As a former patrolman , we had a divvy manager who briefed the night gang about the electricity at work act 1974 , then asked me if when I was on days the following shift if I would take the lads out onto the down main fast during the peak and dig out a nasty wet bed that was right on the tip of the juice rail ramp end and was bubbling and fizzing away nicely , and would I do it without a form C isolation! ! ! I replied was he on drugs ? , give me the isolation and a possession and I’d do it was my reply . You couldn’t make it up . We had such a bad wet spot by the single line tunnel at Raynes park on the up , 15 beds worth of slurry broken keys , missing housings on some sleepers , it was a potential derailment, it was like that for over a year the section maintenance engineer was horrified whilst out on a walk with me , I used to keep a copy of all of my walk out patrol sheets in my locker in case the office denied it , I had reported it every week as did my mates in the gang , half a dozen tie bars were put on ASAP and two weeks later they re laid the track. Horror stories from a railwayman of twenty years I could tell .

[@StuAnderson90]

Repairing a wet bed.. mate i'd chuck it out order a new from from DFS.... and sack the person who wetted the bed 🤣🤣🤣

[@Spookieham]

I see they are using the peewee safety monitor which was never brought into service.

[@cjmillsnun]

PeeWee was and remains in service to this day. ILWS was never brought into service.

[@ianryansmith]

It's shocking to see that this is still the best practice method. The actual on track method is far and away from this.

[@rogerphillips5193]

In order to complete the work the rail surface should be ground as many wet beds are caused by imperfections and irregularities on the rail surface This should then stop a reoccurance

[@dieseldave3879]

👍

[@christopherwaring8285]

REPAIR WET BEDS SHOULD GO TO THE TOILET AT NIGHT

[@K-M1]

What a horrible job

[@BT-kf4kx]

why cant unsub irrelevant youtube videos, what does this even mean confusing people lol