Maldon Yard

It didn’t take us too long this morning to get the 60lb concrete track panels back down.

And although there is a few gaps in the progress, it can be seen here that before long it was essentially joined up once again.

There’s still a bit to go on the curve and then the headshunt itself, however it’s all gone pretty much to plan.

There’s obviously still a good amount of ballasting and tamping to go, however that’s the easy and relatively quick part compared to all this work.

One very small part of the day didn’t quite go to plan. It’s a little hard to see in this pic…. but a couple of corner bricks on the platform got a slight tap from the digger.

While we were moving the track panels back in the digger clipped the handrail on the wooden fence and that was the result! Actually it wasn’t that bad initially, but for clearance we did need to move the lump off and aside, it had been loose and moving for some time so at least this forces the issue is regards to fixing it! Any good brick layers out there??

Thursday’s crew will be meeting from 8am where we’ll hopefully finish the job, or at least the bulk of it.