Another successful day today, with only around 45 sleepers installed, the exact number still needs counting. However, it exhausted our supply of full depth e clip type sleepers.
The day began by marking up the next section to be done, using this one of a kind broom with a lump of wood screwed to it – at the correct length for the sleeper spacing.
Most of the length for today actually involved removing concrete, with does feel a little counter intuitive, but in the big scheme of things, it makes sense. A little bit of spike pulling was required.
At the Bell Block (insulated joint) for Bendigo Road Xing, we of course had the diode, part of the track circuiting, that required special consideration, besides now being this glorious vibrant colour, very great care was taken to ensure it was not harmed – we’re happy to report that we executed the work without any issues.
There was nothing groundbreaking or new today, just more of the same.
Today efforts actually jumped through to the next run of concrete sleepers, helping to give us quite a decent continuous run of concrete sleepers now.
Obviously it looks very much like unballasted and untamped track, however in appearance it actually doesn’t look any rougher than it did previously and generally looks considerably more impressive, especially in such a long run.
We spent the afternoon bundling and strapping old sleepers, generally organising the site and tidying up.
Tomorrow, we still need to jack and squeeze all of what we did today, and we need to spend a good few hours preparing the next run of sleepers to be installed. We’ll be meeting at Maldon around 8am, as we’ve got a few vehicles to take out to site, hopefully we’ll be out on site from 8.15am.
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