Another very successful day! 26 rails (plus the one left over from the UP) were brought up from Muckleford and dropped out along the very last part of Tangent 20-21.
We ended up having two lengths of 80lb too many, how’s that for cutting it fine over the whole 8Km between Maldon and Muckleford, only 2 rails left over! (lots of short fairly useless stuff left over too but it’ll likely be used in sidings)
Once dropped out the shuffling began, getting the lengths into their approximate final positions.
This was followed closely by the joint cleaning and lubricating crew, which in turn was followed by the bolting up crew. The 25 rails required are now bolted into strings of 4.
To round out the afternoon we broke up the very last of the 60lb still in strings and removed about half of the dog screws in preparation.
As next week is a short week, we wont attempt it then, however in a fornight and the big day will arrive and we’ll finally have this section complete.
Don’t forget tomorrow’s civil Saturday at Muckleford from 8.30am
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