Well, we’re back into the resleepering program, with a nice little section largely completed today from Chapmans Lane.

We’ve inserted 124 sleepers and have another 5 to put in tomorrow to have this complete. This takes us just shy of the Home Signal. However, given the good rate of progress so far this week, we’ll hopefully get to the signal comfortably, which will be about halfway along this straight.

Tomorrow’s crew will be meeting at Muckleford from 8.30am, clipping up the last few sleepers and getting the next bit ready.

The week just gone saw us make good headway into getting concrete sleepers dropped out, ready for resleepering from Chapmans lane towards the Bridge.

We made good use of the digger telehandler combo to get sleepers out of Muckleford Yard efficiently – as the dropout location was close by, it worked well.

Once we’d exhausted the supply in Muckleford we headed out to the stockpiles near where we were dropping out, these required sorting through to sort the usable from the requires further attentions. In the end, the rain dumped hard and saw us have to stop just prior to finishing the job. However, there is very little to go.

This section was largely already 4 hole fishplates, however a few 6 holers remain, we’re part way through knocking that over.

This coming week will see us actually replace some sleepers, starting at the Crossing and heading in the Down Direction.

However, we’ve had a few extra commitments pop up for Monday – so no Workday on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday are looking perfectly promising however, so we’ll be meeting at Maldon at 8am or on site (Muckleford) from 8.30am.

What started as tidying up a blown down tree from the weekends storms turned into replacing 10 sleepers and 4 point timbers in Maldon Yard today.

None of them were overly urgent. However, having completed them means we’ll not need to do much, if anything, at Maldon for another 12 months now.

We’re not quite complete yet, so that’ll be job one tomorrow, before we head off to Muckleford to begin resleepering works down there. Meeting at Maldon tomorrow from 8am

Due to the wet, which is very welcome, we’ll not have any workdays this week – it’s become very boggy already, and we’ll use this week to get our planning sorted for the rest of the year.

It’s looking like it’ll be business as usual next week. The plan is to begin the works to resleeper from Chapmans Lane towards Muckleford Creek Bridge.