It seems that every time the sun has its hat on & it’s lovely and hot this country can’t cope.
Buckled rails everywhere.
How do really hot counties cope.
Australia, India parts of America for instance.
Do their rails buckle or do they treat their rails in some way to combat this problem?
If so could we start doing it?
How much does painting the sides of the rails white help?
Is that the answer?
I’m no engineer & don’t pretend to be so welcome any explanation.
I’m just reading that in Pakistan it was 45c yesterday & trains ran normally.
Apparently our Railway tracks are designed to an operating temperature of 27c.
Yesterday we had a maximum of 38.1.
27c!!
That can be a normal summer temperature in this country.
I find that hard to swallow.
This country pioneered railway engineering did it not yet the second the sun rose yesterday Notwork Rail announces that services will have to be cancelled in anticipation of high temperatures later in the day.
In that case why bother with a Railway.
After all the wrong leaf may fall on the track or we might even have the wrong type of snow.
Is this really the same Great Britain?
As others have said, read my posts earlier in this thread, and the link to a previous thread I put in one of the posts.
In short - other countries have exactly the same problems. The laws of physics apply universally. They combat them in different ways. Some countries do no work to the track all summer. Others (some railroads in the US, for example), are content with a lot more track buckles, and derailments.