![On 7 February 2015 we extended our mainline track past the gate towards Maymorn station](/sites/default/files/20150207-mainline-past-gate6.jpg)
On 7 February 2015 we extended our mainline track past the gate towards Maymorn station. Just a short distance, but great to be heading "up the hill" with the track again.
A few tasks had to be completed in the preceding weeks, including excavating and installing a field-drain to take surface water away from the pedestrian crossing area, rails cut and drilled, sleepers adzed and pre-bored. Further extension of approximately 100m is pending removal of hard fill from the future loop formation.
Photos: Glenn Fitzgerald, Hugh McCracken
![Glenn and John bring a 12m length of 50kg/m rail to the head of steel](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate1.jpg?itok=BqiUqMBm)
Glenn and John bring a 12m length of 50kg/m rail to the head of steel
![Glenn and John prepare to drag the rail down the formation to join on to existing track](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate2.jpg?itok=R2haflfW)
Glenn and John prepare to drag the rail down the formation to join on to existing track
![Length of rail slowly brought into position](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate3.jpg?itok=XwyiiLHJ)
Length of rail slowly brought into position
![Second length of rail eased over the newly laid surface drain](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate4.jpg?itok=Khsrzz3r)
Second length of rail eased over the newly laid surface drain
![Ray and Hugh bring track to level after fitting sleepers](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate5.jpg?itok=92T1rnYO)
Ray and Hugh bring track to level after fitting sleepers
![A ballast drop over the newly laid track finishing the day's work.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate7.jpg?itok=Jm9a9gwz)
A ballast drop over the newly laid track finishing the day's work. The wagons were shunted with Tr189, out of shot past the EMU car...
![The evening south-bound Wairarapa passenger service passes through Maymorn, with newly laid track in foreground.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/20150207-mainline-past-gate8.jpg?itok=ldBt2kVb)
The evening south-bound Wairarapa passenger service passes through Maymorn, with newly laid track in foreground.