Rerailing

A good strong effort on the photography front today, with a whole one photo, which didn’t even show anything related to the work being undertaken!

Anyhow, in a brief round up, the matching insulated joint has been installed and all the rail installed yesterday has been clipped up.

The majority of the day was spent measuring, cutting and preparing the rails to go over the bridge, as they were all exactly different lengths. One we’d got everything prepared, they were all bolted together off the bridge, where it’s easy and then as 2 separate big long strings of rail (approx 160m each), were dragged onto the bridge, in readiness for the rail swap and to provide the anchor point for the harness restraints.

We’ll be back into it tomorrow, with the plan being to install the wire bonding between the joints on the crossing side of the Insulated joints, before beginning the rail change up on the bridge. Meeting out on site, access from Midland Hwy Crossing, from 8.30am.