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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Tile Hill Station: lnwrth714

View of the down line's track being renewed at Tile Hill station with old ballast being removed by wagons on the up line

View of the down line's track being renewed at Tile Hill station with old ballast being removed by wagons on the up line. This view shows just how much work was involved with the down line and trailing points to the goods yard having been entirely removed to allow the ballast to be dug up by the 'Drot', a front-loading tracked vehicle. Its not known if the rails, sleepers and ballast were being replaced enbloc although the answer is probably yes bearing in mind electrification was not too far in the future. Examination of image 'lnwrchg1065' shows that the timber sleepers near Canley Halt, just a few miles away from Tile Hill, had been replaced with concrete sleepers by November 1963. The pointwork offers no clues because despite being lifted and stored on top of the siding the complexity of the pointwork necessitates the use of timber sleepers even to this day.

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