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NewsTrack recording, tamping, transport and training
PLASSER & THEURER: The GMTZ self-propelled track recording car for DB Netz will on show on the outdoor tracks at InnoTrans, along with a Unimat 09-4x4/4S universal tamper. The 140 km/h GMTZ offers an interior height of 2 000 mm while still fitting within the restricted clearances of the Berlin ...
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NewsFaster track maintenance at RVR
AFRICA: Kenya - Uganda railway concessionaire Rift Valley Railways has taken delivery of a ballast tamper and ballast profiler ordered from Plasser & Theurer at a cost of USh3bn to significantly reduce the time taken to undertake track maintenance. The two machines will work in tandem to correctly align track ...
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NewsThe tines they are a-changin’
TAMPING: Plasser & Theurer has developed a new design of tamping tine which can be fitted to existing machines, where it will give a longer service life and thus be more cost-effective than existing designs. It features a slimmer shaft to reduce penetration resistance, and the underside of the tine ...
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NewsFull order book in Freilassing
ROBEL: Driven by a robust export market and sub-contracted work from its parent company Plasser & Theurer, German track equipment supplier Robel is increasing capacity at its base in the south of the country.
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NewsDB Netz uses satellites to locate track in three dimensions
GEOMETRY: Satellite surveying enhanced by reference points on the ground is now so accurate that it can be used to define the absolute position of track to± 10 mm accuracy, allowing contractors’ tamping and lining machines to produce track geometry within ±1 mm of optimised calculated values.
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Monster machine masters multiple functions
The RPM-RS-900 track renewal machine handles formation renewal, reballasting and tamping in a single pass with the option of recycling used ballast
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Busy railways need faster and smarter equipment
THIS SUMMER, lineside residents around the Austrian city of Linz could have been woken by the strange sight of a blue and silver inspection vehicle trundling by, festooned with floodlights and cameras, as well as a host of advanced measurement systems. The twin-unit Track Geometry Car 4 spent a week ...
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Integral ballast recycling contributes to sustainable development
Development of ballast cleaning machines with integral recycling of used ballast is helping to reduce the cost of disposal, and is becoming an important tool in the track maintenance business as legislation on waste disposal takes effect Rudolf Becker and Patrick Vierlinger Plasser & Theurer, Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft mbH ...
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High-Output Ballast Cleaner
The first of two High-Output Ballast Cleaning Systems being supplied by Plasser & Theurer to UK infrastructure company Network Rail is due to enter service this month, with the second to be delivered in the summer of 2005. Both machines will be operated by First Swietelsky under a two-year contract ...
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Beijing Metro invests in mechanised maintenance
CURRENTLY ON trial in China are two new Plasser & Theurer tamping machines which will revolutise infrastructure maintenance on the rapidly-expanding Beijing metro network. At present there are four lines in operation - 1, 2, 13 and the Batong Line, with a total route length of 114 km. ...
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Plasser & Theurer’s technical advances to keep ahead
THREE THOUSAND active patents lie at the core of Plasser & Theurer’s track maintenance machinery business, giving it a good foundation to develop new technologies. More than 13 000 machines have been supplied to 103 countries in the 53 years since the firm was founded. A privately-owned company, Plasser & ...
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Network Rail accepts a pair of High Output Ballast Cleaners
INTRO: The first of two RM900RT High Output Ballast Cleaners underwent a series of demanding checks and tests to obtain an Engineering Acceptance Certificate for use on the UK networkBYLINE: Peter Howells CEng FIMechE and Dr Bernhard Lichtberger*BYLINE: * Peter Howells was Principal Executive Consultant, AEA Technology Rail until June ...
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High-output machines speed track renewals
WORK is due to start in early May on a programme of track renewals covering around 100 km of the ProRail network. The contract was awarded to the contractor Spitzke Spoorbouw BV, a subsidiary of the German Spitzke group.The work forms part of the Nefit Noordoost programme to renew sleepers ...
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High-Output Ballast Cleaner
The first of two High-Output Ballast Cleaning Systems being supplied by Plasser & Theurer to UK infrastructure company Network Rail is due to enter service this month, with the second to be delivered in the summer of 2005. Both machines will be operated by First Swietelsky under a two-year contract ...
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Flash-butt welder enters service
COSTFER’s Plasser & Theurer APT600 which entered service during April represents the state of the art in mobile flash-butt rail welding technology.Flash-butt welding permits the precise alignment of rails and a consistently reproducible join quality, as well as permitting a high level of automation. In contrast to aluminothermic techniques, it ...
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Ballast machine cleans up
BERLIN-BASED contractor MGW Gleis- & Weichenbau GmbH & Co KG is using an RM 95-700 high capacity ballast cleaning machine from Plasser & Theurer for maintenance work on the German rail network. The eight-axle articulated hydraulic machine offers a precise, laser-aligned cutting of the subgrade, with integrated supply of new ...
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A tale of two cities - more electronics and more software
This month sees the world's two largest track maintenance exhibitions take place just five days apart on different continents. David Burns highlights the latest developments that jetsetters can compare at the Railway Engineering Maintenance & Supply Association show in Dallas and the German Railway Engineers' Association (VDEI) exhibition in Münster
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Dynamic stabilisation keeps geometry in shape
INTRO: Long-term trials carried out jointly by German Railway and Plasser & Theurer have shown that dynamic track stabilisation reduces the rate at which track geometry deterioratesBYLINE: Dr Bernhard LichtbergerHead of Research & TestingPlasser & TheurerIN A LONG-TERM trial carried out with German Railway on a main line near Regensburg, ...
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Dynamic Tamping Express on show in Köln
On November 29 Plasser & Theurer demonstrated its09-3X Dynamic Tamping Express to WCRR delegates in Köln. The machine combines a continuous-action three-sleeper tamper with a dynamic track stabiliser, allowing track to be returned to use after a single possession in a condition where controlled ballast settlement has taken place after ...
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Ballast recycling eases logistics of track renewal
ON JANUARY 17 track maintenance contractor Wiebe & Swietelsky took delivery of what its supplier claims to be the largest track renewal and formation rehabilitation machine in the world. Within two weeks the company had set it to work on a 2 km section of track near Bonn in Germany. ...
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