Rails in the Rain!

Rails in the Rain!

3rd July 2009

A quick Friday afternoon glimpse of this weeks tracklaying progress. I guess this is about a third of the way along and the lads are lacking the sleepers on the graded ballast, laying the chairs and rails, fastening this down then packing the sleepers and top ballasting. This process is followed as we have no railed vehicles we can use so all work has to be within reach of the excavator bucket and a flat trolley! Progress is excellent and next week the line laid will be levelled up and finally aligned before the next section is started. The heavy rain we have been experiencing between long hot sunny days has tested the new drains to the max, and so far these have proved to be very effective.