Tamping - Types

Types

Ballast Tampers are built in many different varieties depending on their purpose:

Tamping machines
  • Straight track tamping machines:
    • Universal tamping machines (U.T.)
    • Unomatic
    • Duomatic
    • Continuous action tamping machines (C.S.M.)
    • Tamping Express
  • Points and crossing tamping machines (UNIMAT )
  • Multi-purpose tamping machines (M.P.T.)
Non-tamping machines
  • DTS (DGS), Dynamic Track Stabilizing Machine
  • Points And Crossing Relaying Machine (P&C T-28)
  • Track Relaying Train (T.R.T.)
  • Straight Track Laying Machines (P.Q.R.S.)

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