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TRAMLINK RAILS “RE-CALIBRATED” TO CUT DELAYS An exclusive story in the Croydon Advertiser reports that recent work to “re-calibrate” the tracks on the Tramlink network should mean less delays will be caused as less temporary speed restrictions will need to be implemented during warm summer weather.
Two tampers and 100 workers were used at the end of May and start of June in a 10 day exercise to fix 6 kilometres of track and lay 500 tonnes of ballast. The work was mainly concentrated around Sandilands, between Arena and Birkbeck and around Addington Village.
A Transport for London spokesman said: “A lot of rails including the tram network in Croydon are set to be at their optimum at 18 degrees Celsius. When hot weather comes along the rails tend to buckle and get out of kilter slightly. The previous owners of the track basically ignored this. They didn't realign the rails so in the hot months of the summer there would be quite a few points through the route where the trams would have to slow right down to five to 10 miles per hour."
Further work will take place throughout the network over the next couple of months.
Source: This is Croydon Today
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