Concrete Sleepers

We had an extremely productive day today, after a very chilly start it was glorious in the calm Winter Sun.

The short isolated section of timber sleepers between last week’s work and the work we completed late last year is now a memory, with the job well in hand to be largely completed by tomorrow.

Nothing too exciting or unusual about today, although the E clip sleepers used are the more regular common type, making that a little more straightforward. However we do a video to show the process in action.

Once the 47 of these were in and clipped up, we jumped over to beginning the clipping up of the fastclips, which was once again a bit of a learning curve! But we managed quite successfully, we’re not sure the name is really appropriate as they’re certainly not quicker… maybe brand new ones with brand new rail using all mechanical equipment might be, anyhow it’s probably quite comparable to the others when it’s all considered.

Once they’re in, they’re as good as a normal e clip job, just getting to that point seems a bit more awkward. There is a correct and completely authentic setup for using these with this rail, however it requires full replacement of the pads, biscuits and clips, which totals to around $30 per sleeper, which while that’ll be on the long term budget to progressively change the across, the end product is identical to what this achieves, spending only about $5 per sleeper.

The end product of today, however, is still quite impressive, even without yet having the full infill and lining treatment, but that doesn’t seem like it’ll be too much of a hassle based on the recent experiences.