Ballast

One of the next stages is to ballast the track in the station. For this we use many tonnes of crushed stone or ballast. The stones with sharp edges lock together to hold the sleepers in place.

With plenty of ballast to place on position a lot of thought has gone in to speeding up the process.

In this picture from CHR Facebook you can see two loaded ballast hoppers on their way to the station to drop their load on the track.

There are plenty more loads to be dropped on the track before we can call the track ballasted. Then we have the fun of jacking and packing to the final alignment.

Keep looking out for more progress updates 

Until next time.