We had an extremely successful day on Tuesday, with the short section of track outside the Castlemaine loco shed reassembled. One of the great things about concrete sleepers is the kit like nature in which the track can be disassembled and reassembled.
Once we’d given it a bit of a line, it can up looking very smart! Ballasting and Tamping will occur on Thursday.
Yesterday afternoon was spent clearing branches that were too near the track, starting at Castlemaine and ending up near Maclise St. This is almost an annual activity these days unfortunately, we’ve still got the rest of the track to go, but it is quite a slow going task, using a pole saw to reach up high enough to get the offending branches.
Thursday’s crew will meet at Maldon at 8am then at Castlemaine from 8.30am.
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