We were pretty quick off the mark this morning, trying to make sure we beat the rain. First job involved a quick line, which actually came up quite nicely.
Then we were into it, head down and full speed into inserting and clipping up sleepers. We managed to knock over the 90 odd sleepers before morning tea.
And it did come up looking really very nice.
It was then time to scrape up what ballast their was, ready for a bit of a jack and tamp, which resulted in us getting quite a nice approach to the crossing.
This spider has taken up residence around the level crossing, often producing very elaborate webs in one night.
While all this was going on, the big digger was gainfully employed, moving the excess sleepers around to the straight between Woodlocks Ln and Maldon Yard.
When we dropped these sleepers here we used it as a bit of a dumping ground, just to get them out of Maldon Yard, anyhow there was almost enough excess either side of the crossing to complete the straight down to Woodlocks Ln, we might need to get another trolley load or two from Pipeline Crossing, which we’ll likely do tomorrow.
Where we’ve finished on the UP side of Bendigo Road is where we’ll jump back to the E clip and Fastclip mix, as they were largely already dropped out, however a bit of preparation in completing that task was undertaken prior to the rain setting in, which it did quite impressively from around 2pm.
These pics weren’t really of today’s work, however they show what we achieved earlier in the week, from a slightly elevated view from the digger showing the curve in the Down Direction and the Crossing in the UP Direction, now that it’s all tidied up.
It’s something we’re certainly very proud of.
Tomorrow’s crew will meet on site (Bendigo Road) from around 8am. We’ll begin by bundling timber sleepers and hopefully all going well between rain showers, we’ll complete the preparations for the next few bits.
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