10th January, 2022
The famous Midsomer Norton track gang is having a busy start to 2022! The first 2 Sundays of the year have seen all the badly worn Down line rail in the station area removed along with all the sleepers. On the first Sunday 4 track panels were de-keyed, the fish plates removed and the 8 lengths of rail lifted out of the sleepers,cut into 30' lengths in situ and then moved with the RRV (Road Rail Vehicle) to the Grampus wagons to await reassembly later in the month.
On the second Sunday (Jan 9th), there was a near record number of volunteers to help which meant all the sleepers could be lifted out using the special boom on the RRV. They were initially placed on the Down platform where the chairs were removed by a separate team; the sleepers were then passed through to the yard and stacked for later use.