With the takeuchi back in action, we had a bit of tamping work still to go at Muckleford Creek Bridge. However we did need to top up the ballast a bit, so today was the first proper use of the hirail tipper.
It’s got a couple of tail gates, this one has has ballast shoots (we took one side deflector off to prevent it going over the bridge edge, we left the other side on, however that didn’t work so well).
It worked an absolute treat, with the three different shoots being controlled by air independently, making it very flexible.
Once we’ve got a ready supply of ballast again, we expect this to get a lot of use.
Once all of that excitement had passed, we headed up to Maldon, where a works train had dropped off a wagon full of turnout bits for us.
We then proceeded to do an approximate drop out of rails ready for Thursday’s crew to get into construction mode.
It’s amazing how quickly they go from looking like a pile of bits into a turnout.
Thursday’s gang will be meeting at Maldon from 8am.
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