We reached a bit of a milestone today, with all the sleepers needed to re-sleeper curve 20 to Pipeline Crossing dropped out track side, plus quite a fair chunk of the balance down to Bendigo Road.
The great mess of gluts that got left behind, has been collected, stacked, strapped and in most cases transported up to Maldon for return to the sector to assist in future concrete sleeper deliveries.
The afternoon was spent at curve 20, where works resleepering 5 days a week will begin from the 4th of March, giving it a final blow and marking up sleeper spacings.
After decades of replacing timber sleepers on a comparatively adhoc basis, the spacings have crept out to being very inconsistent, something we’d like to remedy with the resleepeeing. You’ll notice the extremely high tech device we’ve developed to help with this job… we can probably improve on this, however it does the job.
Tomorrow’s work will be a complete change of pace, with a head start to be made on installing the new turnout in Maldon, the one we assembled almost a year ago! We’ll make use of tomorrow to get the none essentials removed, to allow trains to still run around on Sunday, then from Monday while we’ve got a week long period of no trains, we’ll pull out the old and install the new. Meeting at Maldon from 8am tomorrow.
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