A final tamp and bit of ballast moving in this morning’s rain sees this section of curve 11 finished.

We’ve still not quite half way through the curve, however if we can keep up the same pace as Yesterday, two full days should just about see it out.

Next week will be re-railing tangent 20-21, as our supply of steel biscuits for the concrete sleepers has temporarily dried up owing to a worn out cut off saw.

After today’s effort on top of Tuesday’s works, we now have 92 concrete sleepers installed in curve 11. We’re yet to do the final tamp and ballast scrape.

The day started out very cool, gloomy and had a wintery feel, which seemed to only get more gloomy and cold as the day went on.

We started by lifting the section that had the screws removed on Tuesday, using our special shover feeler gauge. A big improvement over the blocks, we’ve decided.

With the scarifier cleaning trenches and the digger catching it with the insertions.

The digger working it’s magic. This job would be almost impossible without this machine.

By morning tea we’d inserted around 30 concretes, with the remaining going in soon after lunch.

Although it was a fairly cold day, it was perfect for trackwork. As the movement to drop out all the required jewellery keeps you nicely warm.

Following the clipping up, now a very well oiled routine, the ballast was spread ready for tamping tomorrow morning.

Another stunning effort by the gang.

We’ll be leaving Maldon at 8am tomorrow, to tamp this section, however the weather is not looking promising so we may end up calling it a day once that’s done.

Another eventful day, with concrete sleepers.

It started off as a sleeper train, with 176 sleepers dropped off at curve 11, we had all this including the marking up of the 1 in 3 to be replaced well finished by morning tea.

Around 60 sleepers were unscrewed, had anchors removed etc… ready for the concrete to go in.

32 were inserted and tamped up ready for tomorrow’s trains at a very reduced speed (8 km/h).

We’ve distributed about half of the concrete sleepers on site, the rest will occur Thursday or maybe Friday morning.

Although Thursday is potentially wet we’ve taken a gamble and plowed on, as if worst comes to worst we won’t really have a lot of work to do keep trains running over the weekend.

Rain / hale or shine meeting at Maldon 8am on Thursday.

It was a Muckleford day today. With some wagons unloaded and others loaded with more concrete sleepers.

Lots of tidying up jobs, all the things we’ve been going to get back.

Even a nice bonfire to clean up a termite infested pile of timber!

Tomorrow will be another sleeper train, running more concrete out to curve 11, you’re welcome to join us, departing Maldon around 8.30am.