Finished Crossing

It was a glorious morning and the signs were that the roadway saw a fair amount of traffic last night, helping to make it compact.

This particular gravel doesn’t seem to want to firm up like it usually does, but hopefully it’ll be right in a few days.

We spent today completing the approaches and giving the area a thorough tidy up.

And we’re very happy with how it’s come up! The roadway surface, being gravel, continues to need maintenance, but the track should see all of us out!

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, an advert was made at this exact location. We claim no rights to it, however it does form part of the railway’s history.  https://youtu.be/UDiQdsiKvCw?si=SKDA9yorHOEfBhCF

It’s a little hard to tell from the ad. However, we can assure you that it was filmed here. A few of the people involved on filming night were out helping us rebuild this crossing today!

Enough time was even had to head back out in the bush and prepare some more concrete sleepers, a good few hundred are now ready for insertion when the time comes, which won’t be next week but will likely be from mid to late September onwards.