Track Details in Photographs - Keith Norgrove

Photographs by Keith Norgrove, David Munn, Peter Tennant, Kevin Bruce, Russ Elliott, Philip Griffiths and Richard Spratt.

Flatbottom track

Pandrol clip with cast-in shoulder
on concrete sleeper.

Pandrol clip with cast baseplate on timber sleeper.

Pandrol "Fastclip" on concrete sleeper. These are used with the recent high strength sleepers for 113lb rail and also for the UIC60 rail introduced last year for main line renewals.

Pandrol clip with cast baseplate
on timber sleeper.

Lockspikes used with cast baseplate,
109lb rail dated 1958

Macbeth spike anchors used
with cast baseplate.

Mills Clip, Pandrol Clip and SHC Clip, (these photographs are copyright of the Devils Guide).

BR1 baseplate for use with FB rail fitted with elastic spikes.

BR2 baseplate with Macbeth spikes.

BR1 baseplate wrongly fitted with Macbeth spikes.

Very early 'BR1' baseplate marked for use with the original 113lb FB rail section.

Early type Mills baseplate.

Standard Mills CR3 baseplate.

BJB clips on an F10 concrete sleeper, this is a rather tired example fitted with a pad designed for a Pandrol fitted F27 sleeper. The two arms of the clip would also have been fitted with insulating sleeves when it was new. On curves the flat plate under the clip sometimes broke out the concrete on the rear side of the locating groove. So some sleepers were retro-fitted with much wider plates.

F10 sleeper converted to use Pandrol fastenings by epoxy gluing the housings into the hole originally used by the BJB screw and its insert plug. This was done both on site and in shops, site sleepers are sometimes seen converted on one side only.

F19 SHC sleeper with the original square clips, there is a later version called a fish or swallow tail where the outer end of the clip tapers to a point. The end resting on the rail having two matching prongs. This saved metal and cost but made the clips very difficult to remove.

F40 concrete sleeper with e1809 Pandrol clips and glass reinforced nylons.

G44 concrete sleeper fitted with Pandrol Fasclips, the green fastclips can be used with both UIC 60 and 113A rail, use white or white and green nylons for UIC60. Or blue and black nylons for 113A. Red Fastclips are used on F41 sleepers with white nylons and are for 113A rail only. (Purple = galvanised green, grey = galvanised red)

NRS1 baseplate will take both 113A and UIC60 rail the size difference being taken up by the nylons. Use two F40 style GR nylons for UIC 60, or red and yellow nylons (originally blue and white were used) for 113A section rail. With both rail sections type e 2007 Pandrol clips are used. Note texture on railhead left by rail grinding machine.