Services on the Gospel Oak to Barking line near London are expected to resume tomorrow, 19 February 2020. This line was damaged by a derailed freight wagon. The work is almost complete with all the new tracks now installed. Final critical works are being carried out over the next hours, said infrastructure manager Network Rail.
More than two and a half miles of the route between Barking and South Tottenham was damaged in the incident on 23 January. Network Rail’s engineers are working around the clock on a programme of repairs, clearing the damage, replacing 39 pieces of rail, 5,300 concrete sleepers, 900 wooden sleepers, removing and replacing 10,000 tonnes of ballast during the track replacement and replacing custom-timbers at 10 bridges.
The RAIB report on this is going to make … interesting reading.
I wonder how much compensation/penalties the rail wagon owners / Freight operator will be paying NR over this one?