Maldon Yard

After having so much fun destructing things last week, we were champing at the bit to do some more today.

Today’s victim was the old trolley road / oil store turnout at Maldon, it’s time was also up.

We managed to take an extremely small number of pictures of the interesting bits, however it was a real hodge podge of tierods, steel sleepers, rotten timber sleepers and some very corroded rail.

And like magic.. the concrete sleepers and replacement rails are in!

This is somewhat of a temporary job as it’ll need adjusting quite a bit when the turnout (the one the photo is being taken from) is renewed later this year.

It certainly changes the appearance of the place however, it actually has a much cleaner look – less cluttered.

These are actually from Fridays efforts, however some slightly improved gate holder openers were installed, these are really high tech, using a snap hook to connect a chain to the gate, preventing it blowing open. Given that when we arrived today the D shackles had been undone and chains unthreaded, we highly suggest if you’re not certain of how snap hooks work – please save these pictures to your phone as a future reference and or google ‘Snap Hooks’.

Tomorrow’s crew will be meeting at Maldon from 8am, where we’ll assemble the track bits and pieces laid out today.