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Significant work has been undertaken in the last ten weeks.
The upgrade of the stations; at both
Gawler and Elizabeth South
are nearing completion.
The platforms at both Munno Para
and Elizabeth are well advanced
and, uh we are now in the process of
constructing and putting in place the overpass structures
and uh... the lifts and stairs for those.
It's also, uh... worth mentioning that the
local residents and businesses
adjacent to this worksite have not only been very
very patient
but they've been very supportive and helpful throughout the process.
Uh, the project is uh, towards the
back end of the job; we've been progressing well; uh
in the last ten weeks, we've got
uh, track and uh, sleepers laid all the way up to Evanston.
Behind me you can see the uh... the ballasting crews; at the moment we've got ballast wagons ready to, uh head into Gawler.
We've got the last of our earthworks and drainage teams working through Gawler at the moment.
Uh, the majority of the sequencing for this project, with our track work
involves our earthworks coming through;
taking out the old
sleepers; uh
putting the rail aside;
removing the old ballast; uh
getting our formations right, our levels right to design;
putting in bottom ballast, laying sleepers, stringing out rail,
putting in top ballast, and then coming through with track machines
uh, to get our tamping
and servicing done to get our track in its final position.
Behind me you can see some of our ballast wagons. Uh, we've
generally got two prime movers; one on each line, with three ballast wagons.
Each ballast wagon holds about
fifty-nine tonne each;
we've got a regulator
that follows the ballast crew.
The regulator plows the ballast evenly through the tracks.
Shortly behind that we have, uh three main line tampers and a switch
tamper that are working up the line to tamp the track to the finished position.
The tamping compacts the track to our design.
Ah, on this job we've, uh almost tripled the amount of plant, the high-rail plant; we've
had to make sure we minimize the impact to the community and can resume our revenue services as soon as posible.
The project, uh, is still on target to have revenue services returning within our seven months.
The result of this will be uh, a new track and significantly our customers will see a much smoother ride when they come back to service.