Rail-net Euro Tour 2005
France - Day 2
France - Day 2
Tuesday, 23rd August, 2005
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Rail-net Euro Tour 2005
France - Day 2 Tuesday, 23rd August, 2005 |
 | LGV sign at St Hilaire, the weather is more Yorkshire than France. But then so is the traction! | ||
 | First things, after the track bed, to be set up are the OLE masts. Here a large drill prepares the holes to drop the masts into. They are then set in concrete. In the background the LGV drops down to a viaduct in the Thiaucourt-Regniéville area. | ||
 | 58033 stands at the end of a track train on the final track for the LGV which has yet to be ballasted | ||
 | A sleeper spacer thingy | ||
 | Hand plant | ||
 | Close up of the sleeper spacing device | ||
 | Track work | ||
 | Some TSO on track plant lifts a temporary track panel onto the rail train | ||
 | How beasty is this!! The specialist track laying train locomotive edges towards the crossover | ||
 | The 58s edge the train very slowly along the work site | ||
 | 58033 on the worksite at Pagny-Sur-Moselle | ||
 | On the head of a ballast train the two 56s stand near Beazée-Sur-Aire | ||
 | 56018 leads 078 up one of the classic LGV rollercoaster gradients | ||
 | 56018 and 56078 creep into the base at St Hilaire | ||
 | 58035 on the tail of the returning ballast working | ||
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