This week, we rounded-up a few more usable old sleepers, and finished laying them under the big gates at Ruddington. Not wishing to make too big a job of it, we left the cesses on either side with only one timber, rather than three abreast. This is partly because the gates have far less 'give' near the hinges, and partly because there will be rodding to accommodate under the gates there in due course.
Then we moved back to the station area and our second-favourite activity, digging ballast, and dropped another spur of troughing in to serve the last outstanding clamp-lock machine. The hard work for this one has been done already. We fetched a recently-refurbished kit of parts from storage, and it should all drop into place.
