Track Renewal Fitzroy Street & Esplanade Queens Birthday Weekend 2011

Saturday 11 June 2011

At the intersection of Canterbury Road/Grey Street and Fitzroy Street looking east; the old trackwork's concrete has been broken up and the rubble is being cleared away.

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Stacks of sleepers in Canterbury Road.

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The road breakers have worked as far west as Loch Street.

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Rubble is being loaded onto tip trucks.

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At the opposite end of the tramworks on the Upper Esplanade near Cavell Street, workers are welding the grooved rail into long lngths.

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Once the rails are welded, they are picked up by a tractor and (rapidly and seeming effortlessly) dragged along the Esplanade to a stockpile near the Novotel hotel.

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