We finished the clipping up today before having a massive clean up of all the timber sleepers and general mess beside the track. We’re yet to squeeze up the ramp and dips in this recent section so that’ll be job one tomorrow, then we’ll spend the day preparing the next section, through to pipeline, ready for the big push after Easter to get through to Pipeline Crossing.

Tomorrow’s crew meeting at Maldon at 8am or on site from 8.15am.

More of the same today, with everything up to the cutting now inserted and most clipped up.

We’ve taken the opportunity to line the curve somewhat, which has made a significant visual difference.

Tomorrow’s crew will meet out on site from 8.15am, where we will hopefully knock over the clipping up and begin the clean up.

Only a short week this week, due to Easter, so we’re not being too ambitious, if we can get 200 in that’ll get us to the start of the cutting which puts us well over half way through curve 18 and more than half way to pipeline crossing.

A selection of pics, at various stages. We managed to get the 1 in 4 treatment from last week’s effort to the start of the cutting, which was relatively comfortable for the small team of 4.

We’ll have workdays every day until Thursday this week, meeting Maldon 8am or on site from 8.15am.

If we achieve the 200 sleepers in good time we’ll use any spare time to go back over the length completed to do a final tidy up.

We did pretty well this week, a total of 441 sleepers were installed, this takes us well into Curve 18.

Nothing out of the ordinary today, but a few pics to follow.

What not captured well in these pics is all the cleaning up that has gone behind the work front, which leaves the job looking so much better.

We’ll be back into it Monday from 8am at Maldon, or on site from 8.15am. It’s only a short week next week so we’re unlikely to break any records, but it should still see us very near, if not well into, the next cutting.