On Saturday 18 August we put a little more work into the doubleslip that we're rebuilding from a kit of parts. In the above, Colin, Peter and John were drilling holes for a checkrail at the Kaitoke end of the slip, the checkrail and running rail having originated from a turnout purchased from KiwiRail at Taita.
The outer slip rail on the KiwiRail side needed further attention to ensure a good fit to the switch. There was some residual curvature that needed to be crowed out - a 40 minute job...
The outer slip rail then needed a trim of about 300mm, to correctly locate the joint with the checkrail set. After another session with the rail drill the checkrail set was fishplated up.
Above - the completed checkrail set to left, cut to be exactly opposite the end of the frog to the right. We are nearing the end of the rail work now, just two more checkrail sets to complete.
Once the doubleslip is completed we will build another turnout - connecting the doubleslip with the completed road 1 turnout and the two tracks leading into the rail vehicle shed.