Permanent Way

The permanent way department is responsible for our track. This includes all maintenance, line inspection, hedging and fencing. There is a track laying gang consisting of full time and volunteer staff working out of Bridgnorth with a purely maintenance section based at Bewdley. Volunteers can either work with a gang, singly or in pairs. For those who enjoy the outdoor life there are few railway occupations to challenge this department.

Working on the Permanent Way includes:

Line Walking: Inspect the track twice a week and look for concerns such as broken sleepers or fishplates, dropped joints, damaged rails and fences, open gates, fire damage and flooded track.

Regular gangs deal with a range of maintenance jobs such as fishplate oiling, lifting and packing of joints, sleeper changing, track ballasting and vegetation management.