As quick as that, it’s all poured!

Another fantastic job and a significant portion of the shed now concreted.

Including the other recent work, it’s all come together very nicely.

It’s fairly easy to see that the next main priority will become the installation of the centre track pit timbers and the same concrete treatment there. Followed closely by the shed annex area. The success of our funding / grant applications will then dictate further progress around the shed.

All this concrete, once cured, will be painted as per the workshop to help keep it cleaner and tidier.

Ended up being an unintentional odd job day today, we began by doing a bit of gutter clearing at Maldon Station which turned into a lot of gutter cleaning! Taking most of the morning, however they’re all done now.

We then headed off to Castlemaine to check on the progress of the Concrete, the boxing up almost completed with the concrete pour booked in for Tomorrow.

The most common question we’ve been asked of late is how much is being concreted, the answer is above. As time and money permit, more will occur. The next phase will be the annex pictured here, which then allows somewhere for the other stuff to go when the other areas are being prepared.

We’ve also returned our fleet of vehicles to Maldon.

Workdays next week will be on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, depending on the weather, the likely task will be fishplate changing, however this may change at short notice, all days, starting at Maldon at 8am.

After today, we’re even closer to having the concrete poured around the loco pit inside Castlemaine Loco Shed.

The previously removed sleepers were reinstalled, and ballast was added. Tomorrow’s crew will, among other tasks, tamp this and prepare the area for boxing up, which is due to start on Wednesday morning.

Tomorrow’s crew will start at Maldon at 8am, we won’t be heading down to Castlemaine until a little bit later, but should be there by 10am.

We’ve spent the past 2 days working in the loco shed at Castlemaine, in readiness for some concreting that will be occurring there very shortly.

We’ve plumbed in a future use drain line for the oil store area, which, if it ever needs a clean out, it’ll be plumbed straight into the triple interceptor to reduce mess etc…

That was all back filled and tidied up.

The rest of the job was all about drying out some very boggy ground and installing some drainage to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

We’ve popped a drainage line in behind the pit, giving the water somewhere to go.  We started installing crusher dust into the trenches for the slab, being this large to allow for jacking beside the pit, more of this will occur once the concreter is on site next week.

Given that the weather from tomorrow onwards is looking very poor (extreme heat), there will be no further workdays this week, we also need the heat to really dry this out before we can reassemble the track.

We’ll be back into it next week however, Monday we’ll be meeting at Maldon from 8am as we’ve got some material to prepare to finish the job at Castlemaine.