Sunday 2nd March saw a brave John doing his second day in a row and Richard his THIRD on the PWay
John reports - 3 hours of digging out more ballast and another two lengths of removing the dreadful elastic spikes all but killed them, so they were very grateful to see Rob turn up to assist. Alas the Colmar Road Rail machine wasn't able to slew the track, even under Georgie's expert handling
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Wednesday saw Fergus and Georgie in a bitingly cold but dry wind, coax the trusty
Muscleman (above) back into life to continue slewing, alas it did burst a pipe three times! But it did what it is designed to do to Georgie's satisfaction.
Muscleman (above) back into life to continue slewing, alas it did burst a pipe three times! But it did what it is designed to do to Georgie's satisfaction.
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John reports of Friday's shenanigans - More slewing today with the muscleman which only broke down twice (which is at least an improvement!) and manually with rail jacks, bit of digging
sleeper ends out for another 3 lengths towards the station. Stripped 6
sleepers of the new point panels to lessen weight for the crane.
Then we swapped 6 sleepers under the newly re-located catch point, 1 rail end cut to length.
Thanks to Georgie, Ian, Martin, Angus and Iain for the assistance.
(thanks to John for all the photos)
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