Today began with a ditch, some drainage was installed and it was backfilled with Ballast, this should help lessen the water soaking issue this area has experienced.
Lots of time was spent setting it out, checking and double checking, before laying out point timbers.
They looked pretty smart once everything was lined up!
A keen eye will note that given we need to install another turnout immediately off the end of this one, we don’t seem to have made provision for long enough timbers… the short timbers you see in the pic above will be replaced (at least 6 of them anyhow) to support the next turnout – but at this stage for setting up, it’s much easier to lay it out as per drawing and swap them over later before we fasten everything up – we also still need to find a suitable arrangement for the point lever as the old arrangement wasn’t ideal.
However it’s starting to look the business!!
Tomorrow’s crew will hopefully get this largely fastened up, at least the straight legs hopefully and by the end of the week, with any luck, she’ll be done!
Meeting at Maldon from 8am
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