Fretwork Rail install a Head Shunt - 7 1/4 Narrow Gauge
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2022
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On this latest video we join our track maintenance team 'Fretwork Rail'. The guitar enthusiasts who like to keep our permanent way in tip top condition. Today we join them as they make the finishing touches to the new head shunt that has been built in the station "A headshunt is a short length of track provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines."
Tamping the track involves hard work and a good rhythm. Perfect for such a musical team. We also capture some footage of a harvest of apples being processed for the local market using our newish tipper wagons. 
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Loving your commentary and loving your railway. All the best chaps
This is a remarkable video of a wonderful little railway. I just had to subscribe. One does not see this much in the USA. Best of luck, God bless!
Thank you very much! We’ll hopefully have some more content up soon! All the best, SLR.
Enjoyed the whimsical narration, very Oliver Postgate.
What a great little railway, and a wonderful video
Brilliant effort from your artisans. I do hope some of the forbidden fruits go onto become the great Somerset transformational elixir of ye Gods?
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Is it a motorcycle engine used to pull the wagons?
We’re not too sure what powers Clunky in all honesty, with the clutch and throttle operated by some bits off a motorbike it’s possible the engine is off something along those lines. The forward and reverse gearbox we think might be off a small marine boat.
After all that effort to level and tamp the track, there is still quite a bump where the headshunt joins the turnout.
PS I also have a 7 1/4” Planet battery loco, in green, on my Springdale Miniature Railway near the town of Denmark in Western Australia.
So nice to hear from Australia
Our Planet loco is the stalwart of our loco fleet being so easy to use and comes out for all sorts of duties on a regular basis with regard to the hump
The start of the 1in30 incline is at the toe of the head shunt switch
For obvious reasons the head shunt was laid to level this change is on a rail joint which makes it easy to achieve hence the hump hope this explains
Many thanks for your comments Michael M-D of Fretwork Rail
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