Last week saw us back in Maldon yard replacing a few more point timbers.

Our attention this week was on the 1 to 2 Rd down end turnout. It was an awkward location to work in so progress wasn’t as rapid as the rest of the yard but we still did very well.

We were back at it today putting in new turnout timbers in Maldon Yard.

3 / 4 road turnout with its new timbers under the blades.

We've almost finished the UP end of the yard, with only a couple to still go in the dock road turnout.

The following pics show the works at the down end of the yard.

Maldon's turnouts are again due for some TLC, with many new timbers required to replace our ageing timbers.

Well the timbers have arrived and over the next few weeks we'll be working our way through the yard.

Work started yesterday on the 3 to 4 road turnout with the first of the new timbers installed.

It was also the first day of using the excavator after its repairs.

Needless to say we're all very thankful we've got it back!!

There is still 4 more timbers to go into under the blade, which will happen early in the coming week.

Today while the excavator was still in the workshops for (hopefully) the last of its repairs, we took the opportunity to run a works train.

We travelled between Maldon and Muckleford to pick up the track jewellery (spikes, screw, anchors, bolts etc…) left over from recent resleepering and rerailing jobs.

The team at work loading up the jewellery and sorting the bits into our ballast wagon.