Sorry about the delayed blog, however we did managed to have a good day on Friday, with the track work portion of 3 road completed.
It began very hot, very quickly on Friday, meaning it was only a half day workday, otherwise it was most probably we’d have had a few on the bench with heatstroke.
We managed to find the energy to do a decent tidy up of the area, with all the little loose items put away and general mess removed.
We’re yet to ballast and tamp this new track, that’s when we’ll worry about getting the line correct, the clearances here were historically extremely tight… so we’ll try improve that if possible and if not then the fence will need moving.
Tomorrow’s workday will be out by Pipeline Crossing, preparing concrete sleepers in aid of the big effort that’ll begin in March. Meeting Maldon 8am or on site from 8.30am
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g’day VGR Gangers
I have enjoyed reading your blog, hope you don’t mind, been sharing it on X, quite a few rail fans out there, had a look in person at your work on Saturday (15th) just gone after checking out the Maldon antique fair, picked a small error, one pair of fishplates not bolted alternatively like all the rest, they had all nuts on one side, apart from that, the work looked very good, well done to all.
please keep posting, railways are sure hard yakka
all the best, Geoff Payne, Castlemaine
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Hi Geoff,
Thanks for having a look!
The fishbolts all facing the same direction isn’t an issue or error, in-fact some fishplates dictated that as being the only option available – these are known as crossing fishplates and are typically used in locations where it would be difficult to tighten the bolts with a tool if they were in an alternating pattern. (until very recently, all the fishbolts between Maldon and Castlemaine faced the same direction, due to the design of the fishplates!)
Cheers,
Will
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