Last week ended up being very successful  will 200 concrete sleepers installed, leaving only about 140 to go to get to the Bridge.

We built on the success of earlier in the week, which all went very smoothly.

We had a minor hose issue on the digger. However, these repairs take only minutes now, so it wasn’t a major impact.

Very little to go until we reach the bridge now.

The usual activities of clipping, jacking and packing, giving a result at least as good as it was before we started.

All tidied up and timber bundled, it was a very neat result for the week.

There will be no workdays on Monday or Tuesday this week (due to the cup), however, business as usual on Wednesday and Thursday.

We’ll we’re back into it and going by today’s effort we haven’t lost our touch.

We only had a gang of 3 today, so we decided we wouldn’t get too ambitious and only aim for 80 sleepers. Well, that proved very easily achieved, so we’ve pulled the spikes to enable the next 80 to be replaced tomorrow/Thursday.

Tomorrow’s crew will meet at Maldon 8am or out on site near Muckleford Creek from 8.30am.

We spent the later half of last week mowing and cleaning up around Muckleford, ready for Trundles and other activities over the weekend – unfortunately due to the weather a lot of activities were cancelled however the area is now very nicely presented.

Thursday did begin with a full patrol, at which time only this tree was found after the heavy winds, very easily corrected by lifting aside with the digger.

Lots of mowing and whipper snipping around the Yard followed, with a Driver Experience Train passing through.

Another happy customer on these very unique experiences.

This week, we’re actually going to have a go at a bit more resleepering towards the Bridge. However, Monday will be a day of odd jobs at Maldon from 8am.

We’re getting pretty good at odd jobs, today’s being the swapping of 9 E clip full depths for Fastclips near Midland Hwy, we’d already replaced a good few when we rerailed so a few of the additional ones we swapped out, all in aid of getting enough of the correct sleepers to complete the works near Muckleford Creek Bridge.

It ended up being a very easy job, taking more time to get there and back.

On the return trip, we tended to some odd jobs, one being the restanding of a whistle post for Brown Street Ped Xing, it had previously got in the way but we never quite got back to fixing it up.

While there, we cleared out a few drains and picked up a few odds and end as we passed through.

Some pics of yesterday’s work at Muckleford, installing some temporary fencing for the coming weekend (Tractor Pull and T Class diesel driving).

We’ve had Bill out on the mower around Muckleford, with the area now looking incredibly tidy after its trim.

This afternoon, we replaced another 6 hole fishplate near Muckleford Creek Bridges, dropped out the E clip sleepers recovered earlier, and made sure they were padded, etc…

A bit of gravel was topped up in Maldon Yard at our roadway and compacted which rounded out the day nicely.

Given tomorrow’s predictions of very high winds, there won’t be a workday. However, given there may be some clean up, we’ll definitely be out and about Thursday checking for any fallen trees, etc… meeting Maldon 8am