BR Civil Engineer Rails

[class37418stag]

Hello please excuse my English 

 

In 1980 to 1994 BR Civil Engineer removed rails and tracks by lifted and carried to back to location and cut into small rails by carried OCA wagon to scrap metal yard ? 

 

 

[Trog]

Rail more likely to be recovered using a Stumec fitted Salmon or sturgeon wagon back then. Saves cutting and having the rails in 60'-0" lengths makes it easier to weld them back up if they are good enough to be used as serviceable. Track as in rails and sleepers would be most likely loaded onto Salmon wagons, as 60'-0" panels and sent to a Central Materials Depot (CMD) for dismantling. In the later part of your stated period rails might be lifted as CWR by the Perch wagon CWR trains. In the later period if the sleepers were to be replaced but the rail reused, the sleepers could be loaded into Pike wagons, using a 360' excavator with forks fitted instead of a bucket.

[andye]

 

Andrew, 

 

This video is well worth a watch, not mine but a good view

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVQCRg9Aj8