Maldon Yard

We had quite a successful day today. Various off jobs around Maldon Yard were completed.

The stock rails for the turnout were soon to install for 3 Roads, didn’t have point chairs fitted. However, these were on hand and before too long both stock rails had chairs fitted and bolted up.

As part of the point chair fitting we needed a few chair bolts, of which a supply was in one of the disused trucks, upon having a proper clean out of the truck we found all sorts of goodies, a whole bucket full in fact!

We’ve been on the hunt for a while for suitable undercover storage option for our bolts and bits that aren’t necessary precious, but are definitely not suited to the outdoor life. As such, we’ve grabbed thia louvre van at Maldon that wasn’t doing much, we’ve got a plan to knock up some cheap racking and it’ll probably house just about everything we need it to. Today saw us get the doors running and locked shut. Our plan has made sure the wagon will still be movable if it is ever needed in traffic. We’ll be working on that between other jobs over the next few weeks.

A works train, with the dual purpose of removing more items from Maldon Yard and a load test of T333 following recent works also occurred today. Both seemed to be quite successful.

There will be no workday tomorrow, due to illness. All being well, things will be back to normal on Tuesday.