Sleepers

Today was extremely successful, and we’ve reached the summit – it’s nowhere near complete, but we’re their.

Friday was unfortunately quite unsuccessful, with both diggers disgracing themselves, both relatively minor in the scheme of things, the little one required a new hose, which took about 1.5hrs to replace. The big one failed on a trip up to Maldon, which proved very time consuming to get home, but all done, issue found and hopefully later this week the part will have turned up and it’ll be back in business. We still managed to finish what we needed to and completed a further 32 sleepers, taking the weekly total to 328 Sleepers – not bad at all for week one.

We’re crossing the fingers for a bit more luck this week, so far we’ve aimed to install 260 sleepers – we’re expecting much slower progress in the cuttings – we have extremely close cuttings on our line, giving very little wiggle room to do sleeper changes, however so far we’re doing OK, just a bit slower than last week.

We’ve got 65 sleepers under the track at the 1 in 4 spacings, all have the biscuits set and the majority are clipped up, finishing that will be job one tomorrow.

We’re quietly hopefully of getting all the sleepers under tomorrow and Thursday, hopefully leaving us the chance to knock over another 40 or so later in the week, but given the short week, we don’t want to get too ambitious, a small breakdown certainly loses a lot of time.

Tomorrow’s crew meeting at Maldon at 8am or on site from 8.15am