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4O05, 07:15 Birch Coppice Freightliner to Southampton M.C.T derailed at Eastleigh (28/01)

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Looks like a late notice job. It's not listed on the SWR engineering works summary nor in the Engineering Access Statement. There are a few overnight Saturday night /Sunday jobs around Eastleigh and Southampton, but nothing suitable in July or August for reinstating pointwork and the even longer time to test it.
 

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Wouldnt be in the EAS at these timescales anyway.

EAS superseded by CPPP up to 10-11 October 2020 - 18 weeks out for TOC's to bid engineering works alterations.
It's for the benefit of the TOC's and FOC's so there will be a willingness to get the work done, even if it does break informed traveller timescales.
 

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Hampshire Chronicle:

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"RAIL passengers are facing more disruption following a major incident at a Hampshire station earlier this year.

Services between Southampton and Winchester are being suspended at the weekend to enable engineers to install a new set of points at Eastleigh."

Have to laugh at "Chief" New Forest Reporter - how many are there?
Pat
 

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Hampshire Chronicle:

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"RAIL passengers are facing more disruption following a major incident at a Hampshire station earlier this year.

Services between Southampton and Winchester are being suspended at the weekend to enable engineers to install a new set of points at Eastleigh."

Have to laugh at "Chief" New Forest Reporter - how many are there?
Pat
What about the dubious quote in that article from Network Rail:
“A Network Rail spokesman said: "We have to plan work in advance and agree the work with interested parties. We installed a temporary set of points until we could carry out a full repair."

I thought the whole saga is more to do with “not installing” a set of points, but plain lining a set of points for speed, and limiting access to the Botley line and depot/works to Platform 3?
 

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I think temporary set of points could be in reference to the slip being clipped? But yes, a vague comment from them.
 

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RAIB final report published.


At about 11:32 hrs on Tuesday 28 January 2020, a freight train derailed while travelling over a set of points at Eastleigh West Junction, immediately south of Eastleigh station. The locomotive hauling the train ran derailed for about 35 metres, causing significant damage to the infrastructure. Four wagons subsequently derailed on the damaged track. Nobody was injured in the accident.Some of the fastenings that hold the rails to the concrete bearers that support them had fractured, prior to the passage of the train. This allowed one of the rails to move outwards under the train, breaking further fastenings and causing the locomotive’s wheels to drop inside the rail, as it moved further outwards. The design of these fastenings made them more prone to this type of failure when subjected to high lateral forces, which were present at these points due to the track geometry at the site and the curving characteristics of the locomotive. The local track maintenance team had not identified any relevant faults prior to the derailment as the fastenings had fractured below the surface of the concrete bearer and these failures were not apparent during visual inspections. Despite previous faults of a similar nature elsewhere, Network Rail had not developed an effective inspection regime to detect such failures. Measurements of the track geometry of this set of points had also not detected any indication of deterioration in the track fastening system.
 
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