We’ll we’re back into it and going by today’s effort we haven’t lost our touch.

We only had a gang of 3 today, so we decided we wouldn’t get too ambitious and only aim for 80 sleepers. Well, that proved very easily achieved, so we’ve pulled the spikes to enable the next 80 to be replaced tomorrow/Thursday.

Tomorrow’s crew will meet at Maldon 8am or out on site near Muckleford Creek from 8.30am.

We spent the later half of last week mowing and cleaning up around Muckleford, ready for Trundles and other activities over the weekend – unfortunately due to the weather a lot of activities were cancelled however the area is now very nicely presented.

Thursday did begin with a full patrol, at which time only this tree was found after the heavy winds, very easily corrected by lifting aside with the digger.

Lots of mowing and whipper snipping around the Yard followed, with a Driver Experience Train passing through.

Another happy customer on these very unique experiences.

This week, we’re actually going to have a go at a bit more resleepering towards the Bridge. However, Monday will be a day of odd jobs at Maldon from 8am.

We’re getting pretty good at odd jobs, today’s being the swapping of 9 E clip full depths for Fastclips near Midland Hwy, we’d already replaced a good few when we rerailed so a few of the additional ones we swapped out, all in aid of getting enough of the correct sleepers to complete the works near Muckleford Creek Bridge.

It ended up being a very easy job, taking more time to get there and back.

On the return trip, we tended to some odd jobs, one being the restanding of a whistle post for Brown Street Ped Xing, it had previously got in the way but we never quite got back to fixing it up.

While there, we cleared out a few drains and picked up a few odds and end as we passed through.

Some pics of yesterday’s work at Muckleford, installing some temporary fencing for the coming weekend (Tractor Pull and T Class diesel driving).

We’ve had Bill out on the mower around Muckleford, with the area now looking incredibly tidy after its trim.

This afternoon, we replaced another 6 hole fishplate near Muckleford Creek Bridges, dropped out the E clip sleepers recovered earlier, and made sure they were padded, etc…

A bit of gravel was topped up in Maldon Yard at our roadway and compacted which rounded out the day nicely.

Given tomorrow’s predictions of very high winds, there won’t be a workday. However, given there may be some clean up, we’ll definitely be out and about Thursday checking for any fallen trees, etc… meeting Maldon 8am 

It’s been a while since the last update, sorry.

Thursday’s crew completed tamping works at all the recent renewals at Muckleford as well as lots of little odd jobs in the region, including bolt tightening, signal and turnout maintenance.

A driver experience train was operating, which saw us confined to yard limits for the day, which given the rather hot and uncomfortable weather wasn’t too much of an inconvenience. The digger unfortunately failed again, with an old repair letting go – after many years of service we should add, unfortunately that’s still under repair but hopefully it’ll be back with us later this week.

Today’s crew did manage some odd jobs at Muckleford, which saw a range of actions, including resurfacing the pedestrian crossing at the UP end ready for some use this weekend for some short T Class driver experiences we have on offer, coinciding with the local Tractor Pull.

This week’s work is a little up in the air until the digger is fixed, we are going to attempt a job down at Midland Hwy with the big digger, however we might not get there until late in the morning, therefore tomorrow’s crew will meet at Maldon at 8am and head out when we get ready.