Grantham: p. way maintenance
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:56 pm
Specially for folk interested in track maintenance , these two photos were taken on 24th May 1962.
Frame 08: Matisa Track Recording Trolley, type PV6. A driver from the shed acting as pilotman would accompany the operator of the trolley when out on the line in the Grantham area.
Frame 10: Dad probably took this picture because he was attracted by the interesting juxtaposition of the two figures - in a very natural conversational pose - with the rigid geometrical patterns created by the track. However, there is more to this picture than an attractive composition.
The man on the right with his pot of oil and long-sticked brush is lubricating the point mechanisms near the north end of the station. If you look at the track in the foreground you can see that there is fresh oil around the special rail chairs fixed to the crossing timbers, known as 'slide chairs', on which the switch blades slide.
The man on the left is Tom Plummer, the North End Ganger at Grantham, who is acting as ‘Look-Out’.
An L1 creeps by in the background.
Frame 08: Matisa Track Recording Trolley, type PV6. A driver from the shed acting as pilotman would accompany the operator of the trolley when out on the line in the Grantham area.
Frame 10: Dad probably took this picture because he was attracted by the interesting juxtaposition of the two figures - in a very natural conversational pose - with the rigid geometrical patterns created by the track. However, there is more to this picture than an attractive composition.
The man on the right with his pot of oil and long-sticked brush is lubricating the point mechanisms near the north end of the station. If you look at the track in the foreground you can see that there is fresh oil around the special rail chairs fixed to the crossing timbers, known as 'slide chairs', on which the switch blades slide.
The man on the left is Tom Plummer, the North End Ganger at Grantham, who is acting as ‘Look-Out’.
An L1 creeps by in the background.