PHOTO REPORT -
EMBANKMENT STABILISATION WORK AT HARMAN'S CROSS
March 2007
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News Item and Photo Report from Andrew P.M. Wright - dated 17th March 2007
Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway.
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Andrew P.M. Wright has supplied nearly 60 great photos of embankment stabilisation work at Harman's Cross being carried out by the SR permanent way gang led by Tony Andrews.

To see the full set of Andrew's photos, please scroll down to the bottom of this page.

Work on Harman's Cross embankment March 2007 - Photograph copyright Andrew P.M. Wright

Vital civil engineering maintenance work on the Harman's Cross embankment is been carried out by the Swanage Railway's specialist permanent way gang led by Tony Andrews.

The work involves replacing a concrete sleeper and rail wall that holds the bottom of the embankment on the 'up' side with a wall of gabions - very large wire cubes filled with stone.

Stones being carefully positioned into the reinforcing gabions at Harman's cross embankment March 2007

Although Tony's team had the assistance of a large rail-mounted hydraulic crane, Andrew's photos clearly show the back-breaking manual effort needed to get the massive volume of reinforcing stone into the correct position - work which is vital to the long-term future of the Swanage Railway.

Work on Harman's Cross embankment March 2007

The concrete sleeper and rail wall dates from the winter of 1987 when the tracks from Herston Halt reached Harman's Cross.

Class 33 diesel loco D6515 'Stan Symes' (BR TOPS number 33 012) was the motive power for the works trains.

Andrew's photos also the Swanage Railway's famous Class 20 diesel shunter - used in the 1995 James Bond film 'Goldeneye' - passing through with a train from Norden to Swanage carrying the large rail-mounted hydraulic crane.

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