Today was a big day of tidying up. Some might say making a bigger mess, but it’s a neccesary evil unfortunately.

We used Goudges to Godreys Lns as our trial patch, collecting all the fastenings and placing them near the crossings

The sleepers were plucked out of the roadbed with the grabs and placed to the side for later collection.

The roadbed was then roughly levelled using a trusty old steel sleeper in the grabs of the digger, acting much like a smudge bar, not perfect but certainly good enough to drive along now.

Tomorrow we’ll be beginning at Maldon, where we’ll be devising a clever plan to make dragging rails across the crossings easier. Meeting at Maldon from 7.30 or at Godreys Ln from 9am (ish).

We seem to be powering ahead with Rail Recovery.

We’ve now lifted and dragged all the rails on the Guildford side of Goudges Ln to between Donkey Gully Rd and Grudges Ln, it’s a lot of rail we’ve crammed into the 800ish metres, but Donkey Gully Rd marks half way, so we’re feeling pretty pleased.

We’ve begun the dreaded task of cleaning up the jewellery and sleepers… It’s not a fun or fast job but we’ll get there. Tomorrow we’ll be meeting at Goudges Ln from 8.15am.

We seem to be powering ahead with Rail Recovery.

We’ve now lifted and dragged all the rails on the Guildford side of Goudges Ln to between Donkey Gully Rd and Grudges Ln, it’s a lot of rail we’ve crammed into the 800ish metres, but Donkey Gully Rd marks half way, so we’re feeling pretty pleased.

We’ve begun the dreaded task of cleaning up the jewellery and sleepers… It’s not a fun or fast job but we’ll get there. Tomorrow we’ll be meeting at Goudges Ln from 8.15am.

Well after all the work recently undertaken at Castlemaine, we’ve been let out for good behaviour so we’re back into rail recovery.

A few rails have been moved today, with tomorrow being the first official day of works resuming.

Tomorrow, we’ll meet Maldon at 8am, then from 8.30am near Godrey’s Ln Yapeen.