A rather busy day of sleepers today, with an exact number not known, but in the region of 1100/1200 dropped out into stacks trackside.
The drop out locations were all within 2kms of Muckleford, so we managed to get close to three full train loads out.
We’ve still got sleepers arriving by truck, as despite the vast number we’ve now got, it’s still a few thousand short of the target that we need to replace all our mainline timber sleepers.
We’ve certainly placed a massive dent in the stockpile of sleepers at Muckleford, with only a few thousand full profile sleepers left there now, mainly the stock there is low profile, which will be used in the Muckleford-Castlemaine section on an as required basis going forward. We are hoping, in addition to our ambitious plans for this year, to get a good number of these low profiles out trackside in stockpiles to free up Muckleford Yard for the hopeful delivery of Ballast!
In addition to all the excitement of dropping out sleepers, the gang found time to fix up the platform surface at Muckleford, where various small holes had begun to form, these have all been filled to provide a much nicer surface.
Tomorrow will be a similar day, however we’ll likely not get the same total number out, as we need to get quite a few up closer to Maldon, which inevitably takes a lot longer to achieve. Meeting at Maldon at 8am.
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