Today’s weather ended up holding up very well, allowing us to get another 120 installed, making 240 for the week.

We’ve even built the ramp and lifted any low spots. Tomorrow will be a digger day, beginning to tidy up the old timber etc… and the jury is still out on Thursday as the forecast is still looking wet.

Well, we’re off to a flying start this week, with 120 already inserted and clipped up.

Besides having to shuffle a few rails to fix some joint locations, it was a pretty straight forward effort.

A length of rail was cut in half and cascaded to elsewhere to get the joints a half length out of square.

By the day’s end, we were very happy with our efforts. We’ve got another 80 sleepers ready to replace tomorrow and Wednesday will probably be a intense digger day getting everything tidied and bundled up. Thursday will likely be a washout but the weather forecast will hopefully firm up closer.

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

Today saw us complete the insertions, clip up, tamp up and tidy up of the concrete sleepers just past Donkey Farm Track.

The old timber and steel sleepers were bundled and transported up to Maldon.

Lots of jacking and packing later, it came up a treat.

A decent tidy up of the area was has, bundling up old timber and gluts.

Followed by a bit of boxing up.

It’s come up quite nicely, looking much smarter than it did previously! It wasn’t an enormous number this week, however now we’re back into the swing, we should see some good progress.

Next week, weather permitting, will be additional concrete sleepers. Meeting Maldon 8am or on site from 8.30am

Well we’re back into it! Resleepering with 100% concrete. We’re starting at Donkey Farm Track and heading towards Muckleford Creek Bridge, replacing the last 1350 timber sleepers remaining between Maldon and Muckleford.

Being a short week and settling back into the swing of things, we’ll most probably only get 130 under this week, however that’s a good solid start, taking us right up to the start of the curve.

There is still plenty for tomorrow’s crew to do, lots of clipping up and tidying up. Meeting Maldon 8am or out at Donkey Farm Track from 8.30am