Another very successful day, with many more bolts tightened, particularly those at the escapes, which had become very loose for some reason. It’s slow going, given each pier has in the region of 32 bolts that require checking and generally tightening… it’s a lot of bolts, when you consider there’s about 38 piers! And that’s just this bridge.
There is still a heap to go, however we’re a bit over half way now, so when things on the sleeper front settle down, we’ll return and do another few days of bolts tightening here.
Next week, we’ll have workdays Tuesday through till Friday, with Monday being the preparation day that we lost due to last week’s hot weather. Tuesday’s workday will meet at Maldon at 8am and we’ll get into a solid few months of resleepering!!
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