Concrete Sleepers

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Things are progressing well out on the resleepering works, with the first pass of the intermediate sleepers inserted and clipped up today, instead of having the gang watch the remainder being inserted we diverted to distributing more sleepers to allow works to progress.

Many hours were spent sorting, preparing and dropping out fastclip sleepers, in fact the whole stockpile in this pic has been distributed, allowing another good few hundred sleepers to be installed over the coming weeks.

Tomorrow’s crew will meet at Maldon at 8am or out on site from 8.30am to continue with the preparations and distribution – it’s never a fun job but a necessary evil in the process.

Often requested has been a progress map of our work on the track, it becomes a very complex task as there is many facets to our works and where does one draw the line as to current works and previous efforts. As part of our record keeping process we do plot our works on a map and we’ve attempted to make that a little more available and accessible – it’s a very large PDF which will require zooming in to see, however hopefully it’ll be of some value – it may be best viewed on a computer.

We’ll endeavour to update this monthly while the major works are occurring.

Progress as of March 2025:

2025-03 VGR Track Progress MapDownload

4 thoughts on “Concrete Sleepers”

  1. Still doing great work guys,

    A request – would you please make a full size file version of the map available somehow? It’s weird, but the map looks good in a browser, but downloads as only a 86 k file, and is thus not viewable in a desktop PDF viewer.

    Cheers

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    1. Hi Ross,
      The original file is only actually 86kb, so that isn’t an error – I’ve since tried downloading it on two different computers without issues – maybe try right clicking and ‘Save link as’ – this might help – let me know how you go.
      Cheers,
      Will

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      2. Hi Will. Thought I’d let you know that it was my PDF viewer (IrfanView) that was the problem. It’s a great app for viewing and editing PDF graphics (as well as most other graphic files), but to view PDFs by default it converts them to bitmaps at low resolution. I now know how to increase the resolution, but I’m not sure of the name and location of your map, so would you please send me a link or somesuch?
        This exercise helped me learn something more about it, so thanks! Keep up the good work.

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