It’s a little hard to tell in the photo, however the main purpose of the day was to improve the top of the track approaching the crossing, this is a before, with the after below.
You might have to take our word for it, but there is a difference.
We also made use of the day to do as much tidying up as possible, such as dragging rails over the old crossing rather than damaging the new surface.
A similar treatment occurred on the Down side, however being much shorter this didn’t take overly long.
We then headed towards Castlemaine, where on the way we corrected a slight kink that was developing just off Pyrenees Hwy Bridge.
It’s a bit hard to tell in the photo, but it’s now greatly improved, we moved around 50m of track to ease the tight spot and improve the transitions, much better now. We did make sure that all sleeper ends had ballast well packed to prevent any movement, that was probably the cause, lack of sufficient rock on hand after jacking and tamping there some time back.
The crew working on the water column cleaning and painting are making good progress, making use of a digger visiting Castlemaine today to have it flipped over, ready to repeat on the other side.
We also attempted to correct a few minor building issues at Castlemaine, the only thing we successfully achieved was cleaning out a gutter, otherwise every thing we touched was either call a tradesman or sufficient broken that new bits need ordering.
We did tick off one job there, being the fitting of anchors to the rerailed section of 3 Road. Which was nice one to have behind us.
Tuesday’s crew will meet at Maldon at 8am, we’ll be doing a few odd jobs as we get the last of the hardware etc… out to Sawmill Road crossing
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