With the down leg now behind us we spent today focusing on the up leg. (Between Woodlocks Ln and the Maldon Home signal)

This will now mean that Bendigo Rd to Maldon yard will all be 80lb.

Still some more spiking tomorrow to finish the job but an excellent day’s work.

We’ve been back into the re-railing this week. This time the straight leading into Maldon. The down (south) leg was our victim this time.

A massive effort over the past two days to get this half of the project knocked over.

Hopefully we’ll be back into re-railing either next week or next fortnight.

Today saw some cutting and unbolting of a few of the old 60 lb turnouts at the north end of the yard.

This is to allow us to stack up the materials to save space, make it easier to keep the area clean and improve access during the upcoming works in the yard.

While we were there we broke up the last of the turnout in 5 siding, this will allow us to improve road access to the shed and beyond, as well as recovering a quite good 60lb turnout.

Over the next month we’ll be removing the rail and stacking suitably up the north end of the yard.

We took the opportunity of the short week to do a few of the odd jobs we’d been putting off in Maldon Yard.

We still had a few new point timbers to install, a rail to replace and a turnout that required some lifting and packing.

The dock road turnout was one, where one of the timbers we replaced had been a long timber to support the Annette lock, however given the extreme cost of long timbers we opted for a short timber joined to a sleeper to support the lock.

While we were there we also replaced a broken rail that had been plated up.

The 3/4rd turnout was in need of a good lift and tamp, we put a fair effort into lifting the blades to match the approach.

We also lifted a big dip which had developed at the end of the turnout leading into 4rd.