Fishplates

A very exciting day was had today, changing 6 hole fishplates for 4 holers, all in readiness for concrete sleepers to go in in March.

We’ve decided that doing a pallet’s worth a day is quite enough, as it does involve a lot of bending and lifting. A pallet’s worth got us from Pipeline Crossing to a few rail lengths into the curve, certainly a lot more to go. However, each one we do is one less later on.

The afternoon was spent doing a range of tidying up and odd type jobs at Maldon.

Thursday’s gang will head out to do another pallet’s worth of fishplates, before heading up to Maldon to get back into the turnout building. Meeting at Maldon 8am