Morning Bloggers. Was planning to add this update at the start of the week. Work as always has got in the way, just seems to be me, myself & I with a brain there at the mo. So much so that the photos on here are from John 'The Telephone' Penny, mine are still on the camera.
Still. Operation Overdue. We ran out of time last winter to do this so last Sunday we finally run out the next batch of concrete sleepers in readiness for track renews in the coming weeks. This will then give us concrete sleepers from the throat of Pinesway Junction all the way down to Sally Lovell's.
On Sunday we had 2 locos in use, No5 Alison as pilot & No2 Andrew as banker (all will become apparent). With 3 loaded Bogie flats each with approx 4 ton of sleepers & the well wagon with the mini 360 on there with the Gartell & Son Patent hook & sleeper removal attachment. We think total gross train weight was around the 16 ton mark. Last time the trackbed seen these weights was probably when the track was lifted.
Sad i know but by the last 20 or so sleepers, we were unloading at a rate of 1 every 25 seconds.
With these now down the next plan is to remove the fish plates & ready the old panels (10 in total) to be removed whole & placed in storage.
Please enjoy the selection of photos below
N02 Andrew on the back at Pinesway with the 360 being loaded
Doesn't Andrew & Joe make make the unloading look easy. Beats manual labour any day of the week.
There's still another truck & loco on the front of this piccy. You can see the weights & the task at hand now. Defiantly glad on machinery now.
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