We had a very successful day today, with around 900 concrete sleepers dropped out in various locations. We’ll repeat this process again on Thursday and Friday and hopefully by then Muckleford Yard will look quite empty and we’ll be well placed to hammer and tongs resleepeeing this year.
We’re getting quite well practised at this art now! Only quite a few more thousand to go.
During the past two weeks, while Will has been on leave, the gang has focused on the rather unexciting task of fishplate changing. Over the course of 3 workdays, around 100 pair of 6 hole plates were exchanged for 4 holers. A selection of pics from across those workdays are below.
All that incredibly hard effort has now meant that from Maldon to just past Pipeline Crossing is all 4 hole plates, ready for re-sleepering in Concrete.
During the previous 2 weeks many many hundreds of sleepers have been taken off the stockpiles and distributed as needed beside the track, ready for insertions.
Thursday’s gang will meet at Maldon at 8am, then out around the Muckleford area discharging sleepers, hopefully we’ll get another 2 train loads dropped out tomorrow and at least one more on Friday, meaning we should just about get all the sleepers needed to be transported out between Maldon and Pipeline Crossing, with a large number also dropped out between Pipeline Crossing and Muckleford.
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