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    Plasser & Theurer’s technical advances to keep ahead

    2006-06-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2005-09-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-01T11:00:00Z

    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

    2004-06-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2003-09-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2003-05-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2002-07-01T10:00:00Z

    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

    2002-01-01T11:00:00Z

    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

    2000-03-01T11:00:00Z

    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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    Ballast cleaners handle higher volumes

    1998-06-01T10:00:00Z

    TRACK MAINTENANCE engineers from Russia, Bulgaria and Austria are gather beside a siding in the outskirts of the Austrian city of Linz. In front of them stretches a combination of track maintenance machines gleaming in fresh yellow paint.Focus of interest is an RM801 ballast cleaner just completed in Plasser ...