Taking the legwork out of basic visual track inspections

PHILIP HAIGH joins one of Network Rail’s video inspection units, to learn how the technology is improving detection, efficiency and safety

Philip HaighContributing Writerrail@bauermedia.co.uk

THE next train to leave Platform 17 is the 1039 to… Platform 15. Sure enough, at 1039, Class 153 153385 departed and ran the few hundred yards into Liverpool Street station throat, and then into Platform 15 after its driver changed ends. Of course, there was no public announcement of this move, nor of 153385’s several more visits to Liverpool Street that morning as it shuttled back and forth over the final few miles of the Great Eastern Main Line. The unit is one of Network Rail’s fleet of three video inspection units (VIUs), equipped with forward-facing cameras and a second battery of linescan cameras slung underneath to record the state of the track in millimetre detail. It also records track geometry via sensors fitted to its bogies. All at…

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