TJ096 awaits at St Marys to head east towards Sydney after exiting the Plasser Yard just east of the station.
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NR's USP 5000-RT Ballast Regulator DR77903 carrying the nameplate 'Frank Jones' about to pass under Scratchbury Hill bridge with (clears throat), uh-hm, let's hope this is right, here goes, 09-3X-D-RT (wipes brow), phew, Tamper DR73115 for company, the Plasser & Theurer-supplied machines en-route from Rugby to Woking prior to (presumably) a ballast regulating and tamping type work thingy.
Surely the biggest Austrian export success story since Schwarzenegger, Vienna-based rail inspection, maintenance and track renewal machine manufacturer Plasser & Theurer produced their first machine in 1953, exporting their first machine to Great Britain in 1956. Their website proudly states that they currently have their machines at work on rail infrastructure in 110 countries around the world including such far-flung places as Iceland, Cyprus, Papua New Guinea and Bhutan.
English Electric/Sorefame built Medway 1444 is seeing transfering two Somafel Plasser & Theurer Ballast and tamping machines from Casa Branca to Ermidas-Sado.
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Video: youtu.be/1H-vGs5zXBI
Maintenance of way crews are hard at work installing a new switch, and reconfiguring the track layout. It took four excavators to lift this chunk of track out. Watching this process was neat, and the crews moved at a good pace!