Today was spent preparing for the decking renewals on Thursday / Friday, however that took all of about 1 hour, so we spent the rest of the day attending to numerous track faults across the bridge. The main one being the rather horrendous line issues it’s had.
Hopefully in these pics you can appreciate how much we’ve managed to improve that! Significantly, this was mainly achieved be re-lining the deck on the beams, a job we’d put off for a long time, not really sure how to best go about it. It’s been wrong for many decades, since it’s rebuild back in the 90s
Turns out if you remove the blocks between the runners and beams, a gentle push on the decking with the big digger and it just moves to wherever it needs to go! Simply install new blocks to keep it from moving and job done.
Kicking ourselves a little that we didn’t try this year’s ago, however it’s only now we’re really getting far enough ahead in the other jobs to dedicate the time to these issues.
It’s still by no means perfect, however, once we rerail with some good straight 80lb rail, it’ll be just as good as our other recent bridge re-rails.
Thursday’s gang will be meeting at Maldon at 8am or out by Muckleford Creek Bridge from 8.30am.
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