{"id":45851,"date":"2022-07-25T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45851"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T11:38:56","slug":"in-pictures-work-underway-on-eccles-line-rail-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45851","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Work underway on Eccles line rail replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Engineers from MPT have wasted no time in starting the major rail replacement works on Manchester Metrolink\u2019s Eccles line. The line started a three month closure on Saturday 16th<\/sup> July with no trams due to run any further than MediaCityUK for the duration of the works and work has already commenced to replace the almost life expired tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first stage of works is on Eccles New Road between Langworthy and Weaste and this will be followed by two further stages on South Langworthy Road and then on to Eccles. Much of this track is the original rails which were laid for the opening of the line in 1999 and its understood that a different method will be used to embed the rails to that used when the original construction took place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Looking west along Eccles New Road just west of Langworthy stop it can be seen that the contractor has removed the old rails on the inbound line by cutting wide slots in the road surface and one of the new rails is loosely laid in place.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here we see a section of new rail lowered into the wide slot cut into the road above the original concrete slab foundation. The blue moulding around the rail houses a polymer block joining two sections of the polymer boot insulation around the rail. The second rail is seen on blocks in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Further west towards Weaste stop progress is somewhat more advanced and the rails are surrounded by newly poured embedding material.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A closer view of the embedded rail in the slot cut into the road.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Closer to Weaste stop at team are using machines to drill a series of small holes in the newly poured concrete possibly to allow reinforcement to be inserted.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A return to a sight seen a lot over the past 12 years or so. MPT the consortium responsible for the construction of the Phase 3 extensions are involved once more.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finally just in case anyone was in any doubt as to why the renewals are needed this photograph shows how badly corrugated some sections had become. (All Photographs by Steve Hyde, 21st July 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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