We’re getting quite efficient at installing the concrete sleepers in this fashion now. An additional 68 were installed on Tuesday, taking us up to a short run on concrete sleepers previously installed when the level crossing was upgraded a years ago.
Quite a decent stretch is now completed and looks remarkably impressive. A few thousand tonnes of ballast and a production tamp will set it off nicely!
We’ll be continuing with this tomorrow, where we’ll actually remove the low profile concretes we installed a few years ago and swap them over for the full profiles, it does seem a little backwards initially, however long term it’s desirable to get the consistency of sleeper type, it also releases the low profiles for use between Muckleford and Castlemaine where they will, in due course, be required.
Meeting Maldon 8am tomorrow or out on site from 8.15am.
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