Sorry, we’ve been a bit absent online this week – we’ve had a few away and others working on some other tasks on the railway, however that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy.
Because of the extra commitments, we elected to only install 89 sleepers this week, which also involved moving a few rails etc etc..
Up to today, the crews have been busy dropping out more sleepers lineside and managed to 1 in 2 sleepers inserted under and half of those clipped up.
Today saw us clip up and install the rest.
It’s all a pretty regular activity now.
We found time to sort the good from the not so good wood, placing them in piles for later collection.
A considerable amount of jacking and packing was required through here, unfortunately we didn’t get a good before shot to show just how bad it had become – another old bridge or probably just large culvert filled many many moons ago that was settling. But it’s come up very nicely all considered now.
A run-through saw the scrappy wood collected and piled up, otherwise its a job we just never get the time to come back to.
The afternoon was a bit of general vehicle maintenance, with the approx 10 year old batteries in the big digger replaced with new ones – it starts now! The truck needed some more puff in its rear tyres – which is so easy since we set our side of the Maldon depot up with Water and Air.
Next week will be a little different – still focusing heavily on the concrete sleepers, but more in regards to preparing the next few hundred metres to give us a clear run later in May – we’ll probably need an extra truck driver Monday morning if you’re seeing this Mick.
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