We had a very successful albeit wet day today, we’ve inserted and clipped up the 1 in 4’s down to Woodlocks Ln, a total of 78 sleepers.
It was so cold and wet we actually built a fire, which proved to be very comfortable at break times.
Tomorrow’s crew will be business as usual, starting at Maldon around 8am then out on site shortly after.
Tomorrow’s weather is looking a little wet but not as much as was predicted last week, so we’ll take a punt and have a crack at knocking over the straight near Woodlocks Ln, meeting at Maldon at 8am or out on site shortly after.
Today’s effort to install the remaining 66 concrete sleepers needed to finish yesterday’s work went very smoothly.
There was a considerable cross fall (non level track) here and has been for some years, however we took the opportunity of this work to remove this and return the track to level, which went very smoothly and came up looking very smart.
There’s only around 320 sleepers left to reach Woodlocks Ln crossing now. Which weather dependant, should be completed next week.
A bit of a tidy up this afternoon left the section looking much smarter than it was earlier in the week.
Monday, being a holiday will of course be a day off, however we do plan on working as usual next week otherwise – there is rain predicted so that may change things on Tuesday, watch out here Monday arvo for any changes.
The day began with a final tidy up of the section from Tuesday, including a ballast scrape, Jack, pack and general mess collection.
It has come up really nicely, which we’re very happy about. This is quite a considerable length of concrete sleepers now, which looks impressive.
We then jumped around to the straight near Maldon, where we unfastened all the steel sleepers ready for the resleepering there.
Then we begun the resleepering there.
We’ve installed and clipped up the first 22 sleepers (in the 1 in 4 pattern), meaning we’ll only have another 66 to install tomorrow, to give us the first 88 concrete sleepers in this straight.
This should be a nice, comfortable day tomorrow, meeting at Maldon 8am or on site shortly after.
