Today saw us clip up the remainder of the concrete sleepers and replace any failed bolts over the same section.

It’s a good feeling knowing that every sleeper we put in will still be there in 50 years time, certainly makes the large job of track maintenance seem much more achieveable.

We’d finished out on site, including tamping up, by lunch. So the afternoon’s work site became Castlemaine. We have a few little things to tend to in Castlemaine and next weeks rain predictions make working near a shed seem pretty attractive.

One job we did knock over today was replacing the last 12 sleepers towards the new turnout with concrete. Mainly because 11 of the 12 were failing and it is evident they we becoming buried or likely to in the future, so while we were all geared up we knocked it over.

Next Tuesday we’ll be in Castlemaine all day, doing some site tidy up and gravel spreading in the shed. Meeting at Castlemaine from 8.30am.

Well another successful day… No photos because we forgot!

72 concrete sleepers were inserted today, with the majority of those clipped up and boxed up ready for a tamp.

Tomorrow will see us meeting at Sawmill Road at 8.30am, clipping up the remainder and tending to a few bolts before we move into Castlemaine to tick off a few outstanding little jobs.

A busy day today with only 3 maskiteers, installing an additional 20 concrete sleepers and clipping up around 35 in total. Leaving only around 60 left to complete this cycle of replacing the worst between Muckleford and Castlemaine.

We’ll be out finishing this off on Thursday this week, meeting Maldon 8am or approx 1km on the Maldon side of Sawmill Rd xing at 8.30am.

Now that we’ve completed the 1 in 3 concretes, were going back through and replacing any failed intermediate timber sleepers, mainly focusing on joints.

We installed around 60 concretes today, staring from Muckleford and headed about 2kms, still lots to go but with the smaller gangs and addition of masks things do happen a bit slower.

We have also replaced a large number of the failed 60lb bolts in the same length, greatly slowing progress.

Due to the forecast of heavy rain tomorrow, we’ve decided to cancelled the day. But we’ll be back into it next week.