(Walking to the grassroots level in the Spring Festival) "Musicians" on the railway steel girder bridge

　　China News Service, Shaoguan, January 27th: "Musicians" on the steel beam bridge

　　Author Lu Shengshen Guo Jun

　　On January 26, a small year in the south, the weather was gloomy.

On the Qujiang Railway Bridge on the Beijing-Guangzhou Line in the Shaoguan East Bridge and Tunnel Workshop of the Guangzhou Public Works Section of the China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd., the sound of "ding dong, ding dong" rose and fell like a percussion instrument, and the water surface under the bridge was exceptional Calm, occasionally a small fish sticks out of the water as a temporary "spectator".

Xie Youjun, the deputy foreman of the Shaoguan East Bridge Tunnel Maintenance Work Area, is leading four teammates to "tie the head rope" for the wooden sleeper.

　　The Qujiang Railway Bridge is about 10 meters high, and the steel girder bridge part is 128 meters long.

The name of Qujiang has a lot of history. It was obtained from the sixth year of Yuanding, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty (111 B.C.), when Qujiang County was settled in Nanyue. The 4 piers of the railway bridge.

The new Qujiang Railway Bridge and the old Yuehan Railway Bridge completed the historical handover in 1988. Just like these bridge guards, they inherited and adhered to it day after day and year after year.

Xie Youjun, deputy foreman of Shaoguan East Bridge Tunnel Maintenance Work Area, is tying up sleepers Photo by Lu Province

　　Xie Youjun and his teammates Xiao Ajun, Li Guangzhou, and Zhong Junqiang spread apart, kneeling on the bridge deck, wrapping the iron wire around the sleeper while twisting the wire knot, and playing the "music" with a hammer. ".

　　"Di, di, there is a car coming, go down to avoid the car", accompanied by the horns and shouts of the guards, Xie Youjun, who had just tied up a sleeper, got up quickly, packed up his tools and went down to avoid the car.

After a while, the whistling train quickly passed the Qujiang Bridge with the sound of its whistle.

　　"This is the ninth train today. During the Spring Festival, the density of trains is too high." Xie Youjun said with a smile.

According to estimates by workers, about 500 trains pass every day during the Spring Festival travel period.

Just in the gap between the next road to avoid cars, 3 trains passed up and down.

High-density train traffic is also a challenge for them, paying attention to safety and completing the work with high quality.

　　"This is how the off-site operation is. If there is a car approaching, we have to get off the road to avoid the car. Sometimes two times in a row, sometimes three times in a row, we have to be accurate and fast every time we go to the road, to ensure that the iron of the sleepers is safe before each car comes. The lines are bundled in good condition.” Master Xiao Ajun told reporters, “The purpose of tying the sleepers is to prevent the sleepers from cracking and affecting driving safety. During the Spring Festival, the density of trains is high, and the pressure on the sleepers is much higher than usual, so there is no room for sloppyness.”

Shaoguan East Bridge Tunnel Maintenance Workers under the road to avoid traffic

　　The reporter saw at the scene that the iron wire with the thickness of disposable chopsticks is as light as threading a needle in the hands of the masters.

Li Jinbin, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Shaoguan East Bridge and Tunnel Workshop, said, "It looks simple, but it is not easy to do. When bundling, a long iron wire of about 2 meters should be wrapped around the sleeper two and a half times, and an S-shaped bundler should be used. Twist the iron wire into a twist-like thread, and nail the U-shaped iron nails to the iron wire on both sides of the sleeper, without the strength and ingenuity of the handle, I really can’t do it well.”

　　The masters should not only bind the sleeper tightly, but also pay attention to the appearance.

It takes about 6 minutes to complete a sleeper, and the time for each train is about 6 to 10 minutes. The faster master can complete two, and there will be a train.

　　"Usually it's fine. During the Spring Festival travel period, we were like monkeys jumping up and down. We suffered from these old legs." The self-joking of the master Li Guangzhou made everyone laugh.

It is an effective way for them to fight boredom by joking in the gap between cars.

Going up and down the road, stop-and-go, beating, beating, and repeating, is their daily work and life.

Repetitive and monotonous, but must be taken seriously every time.

Xie Youjun said, "Although it's boring, we have to be responsible for our lives."

Shaoguan East Bridge Tunnel Maintenance Workers are tying up sleepers Photo by Lu Province

　　In order to protect the safety of bridges and tunnels, Xie Youjun and his colleagues traveled through different tunnels and bridges every day to carry out maintenance operations, "not missing a single disease", this is their work attitude and the belief they have adhered to for decades and habit.

　　It is understood that the construction area where Xie Youjun is located is responsible for the maintenance and repair tasks of a total of 17 bridges, 2 long tunnels and hundreds of culverts on the Beijing-Guangzhou Line, the Ganshao Line, and the Ganshao Line.

Check and clean up the open bridge deck cover, pier support, tunnel wall, drainage ditch, etc.

Every day, I have to walk five or six kilometers to check, and I have to knock at least 6,000 hammers.

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