Certainly not a record setter day, but we still managed to get a good few hundred sleepers distributed out beside the track today.
The main dropout locations were by the 87 mile post, in whatever space was available between the cuttings to stockpile the sleepers.
Once the first load was out, it was back to Maldon to collect the small stockpile that had accumulated there, it wasn’t a full load, but still enough to warrant doing.
We even managed a third partial load, with the wagons a little over 1/2 loaded at Muckleford and distributed before parking the wagons up at Maldon for the Christmas period, there isn’t a great number more concretes expected over the next while, however there’s a few other items that’ll be nice to get out of Maldon while there is a few empty wagons available.
Inkeeping with the recent tradition, the digger held us up for half hour or so today, while we rotated a couple of tyres to better place a punctured one for the trip back home from Muckleford, in all fairness we’ve probably got around 3 years longer than we should have out of that tyre! It still has a transmission issue, but it appears to be improving somewhat, meaning the machine is still usable in non critical work. However, we’ll get back onto that issue in the new year.
No workday tomorrow, that’s more than enough work for this year!
A massive thankyou to everyone for another fantastic and extremely productive year, wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Looking forward to catching up again in the new year, with workdays starting back from Thursday 4th January.
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Well done on the efforts and commitment of the Civil works crew, in achieving all that has been done this year. I always read with much interest, the efforts in re railing and re sleepering in concrete of the line, in order to ensure longevity.
I commend your management group for seeking surplus materials etc, from the suburban level crossing removal works, in order to ensure you are resourced for subsequent activities required on the line.
Now to be a pest. For historical context, we can read your blogs, but unless you have an intimate knowledge of the line, and can visualise where the relevant works have been conducted. I take it on face value that something good is being done, but I can’t picture it.
That said, is it possible someone could do up a map of the line, indicating where you have resleepered or re railed, this year, and possibly previous ones. This would allow the non line familiar types, to see where you have done what, and also to understand and appreciate the larger scale of your results, and thus comprehend what further efforts remain.
Again, a very well done indeed for the years work.
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I am in awe of the amount of work that the civil team has achieved this year!
Heartiest congratulations to all involved, your efforts will stand VGR in good order for years to come.
Enjoy the Xmas break.
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Hi David, Thankyou for the kind words, it is greatly appreciated.
Yes, we have actually been trying to develop a map type concept to outline what has been achieved, however as you can probably appreciate it has turned out to be slightly more complex than we’d hoped, as once we go through the records, it turns out we’ve completed far more than we even we realised, even just listing it by the various tasks becomes quite a detailed affair.
We are considering that in the new year, as we head towards undertaking a very heavy re-sleepering program, we might look at doing a few ‘driver eye view videos’ to help show the progress every few months or so to help put it into perspective better than we can with words, it’s just another tasks to complete so we’ll see how we go timewise with that one.
Regards,
Will
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