Workers set about digging, bagging up and hauling the old concrete bedding away from the site. Replacing old rails.

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Workers set about digging, bagging up and hauling the old concrete bedding away from the site. First aid officer watches over the men . All materials and equipment must be brought and taken away from the site by hand so the pace of work is moderately slow and labour intensive. Overnight Transport For London maintenance or engineering work on the Tube network is undertaken by A TFL 'gang' as they set about replacing 4 sleepers at Oxford Circus Bakerloo line north. The supply of electricity to the track is switched off as the work takes place in the overnight window between the last and the first trains

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Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: nr Oxford Circus London
Photo credit: © roger parkes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: fixing, infrastructure, london, maintenance, network, nighttime, rail, rails, repair, repairs, replacing, tfl, tracks, transport, tube, underground, updating, work, worker