Last week saw the VGR out and about, still doing railway work but instead over at the Daylesford Spa Country Railway.

The DSCR received a new bridge over East Street in Daylesford, replacing the life expired and damaged old bridge. 

We transported our excavator over to help remove the old track and ballast, replace some point timbers and to build the new track.

The collection of pics below shows the works as they happened. 

It was a pleasure to help out another railway and we wish the DSCR all the best with their new bridge!

Today we stood more rails and distributed materials for our next re-railing jobs.

As part of the process we stand the new rails at the end of the sleepers using the excavator, ready to be rolled into place when we pull out the old 60lb rail.

One of the next sections to be done is between Woodlocks lane and Maldon Station.

This straight requires 23 x 14.5m lengths of 80lb rail in each leg.

Curve 9, on the down side of Sawmill Rd. (29 lengths required for the high leg of this curve)

Our next re-railing job will be curve 5 ( end of Winters Flat Bridge) this Thursday – 14th Sept.

We’ve been busy preparing more 80lb per yard rail to go into our running line.

The rails required cutting when they were transported to the railway from Bandiana.

As a result we either need to drill holes or cut off an old weld at one end of the rail before we can use them.

The pic above shows us laying the rails out for drilling or cutting.

The rails are then loaded onto our well wagons for transport to site.

We ran out around 60 rails to various places along the railway this week, the pic below shows us shunting our train back into Muckleford yard after completion.

The earthworks have started for the installation of no. 5 siding through the carriage shed.

Keep a look out for details of upcoming workdays for the laying of 5 siding.