High-capacity tamping using the 09-X series
The gold standard for MULTI-sleeper track tamping machines
- In operation all over the world thanks to outstanding quality: the tamping unit creates more sustainability thanks to simultaneous tamping of multiple sleepers
- Greater output while producing excellent quality: continuous working action achieves spectacular increases in output. Technology that continues to set standards to this day.
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High-capacity lines require high-performance maintenance
Express tamping - maximum quality for track maintenance: Plasser & Theurer tamping technology ensures process reliability.
Technological advantages and options:
- 3-sleeper tamping units
- Lifting and lining unit
- Frequency control and frequency synchronization
- Lower axle loads (< 20 t), approved for line category C2
- Plasser IntelligentControl, SmartALC, Data Recording Processor
- New cab design and improved ergonomic design
- Sleeper detection system
- Levelling and Alignment Laser
- 920 mm wheelsets on all axles
Examples of the product
Nowadays, its powerful performance is in demand more than ever: a Tamping Express can easily handle the short track possessions and tight schedules for maintenance work. More than 1,800 09-X tamping machines are operating on plain-line tracks around the world. And we are still moving with the times: with its modern industrial design, the new 09-X series offers its tried-and-tested output combined with new ecological drives and integrated additional modules. ModularCustomizing, including a trailer selection specific to the user, gives you exactly the machine you need with the features you want. A crew cab, workshop cab, material trailer, or a Dynamic Track Stabilizer – the possibilities are almost endless.
Tamping machines in the 09-X series are designed for maximum tamping performance. As early as 1983, Plasser & Theurer combined MULTI-sleeper tamping and continuous working action to create a new output category. In 1995, the Tamping Express took things to the next level.
Advantages of multi-sleeper tamping
However, continuously working MULTI-sleeper tamping machines show their full potential not only in short track possessions during maintenance tamping. Machines in the X series also offer advantages when laying new track, for example, following extensive track rehabilitation. They are designed for high lifting and lining forces. As lifts take place in multiple work stages, this also means the machine’s increased output allows you to complete construction noticeably faster.
For quality reasons: MULTI-sleeper tamping units provide more uniform working action, which translates into higher maintenance quality. Owing to a longer frame, bending stress of the rails decreases. And the subframe bogie that fixes it in place prevents elastic rebound of the track after tamping, lining, and lifting.
3X tamping unit
When time is of the essence
The 09-3X’s key component is the 3-sleeper tamping unit. It allows the machine to tamp three sleepers simultaneously during one single tamping process. Whether it’s maintenance operation or tamping newly laid track: compared to the continuous 2-sleeper tamping machine, the 09-3X model increases output by 30 to 40%. And that’s not its maximum performance, but rather, an average value. In 1996, the 3-sleeper tamping technology was introduced for the first time. Ever since, the concept has been used around the world and continues to live up to its reputation. Globally, the name 09-3X is synonymous with simplified worksite logistics, optimal utilization of track possessions as well as reduced costs for administration and staff.
2X tamping unit
The continuous classic for 2-sleeper tamping
The required tamping performance per time unit determines the size of the tamping unit. In that sense, a high annual output may be just as crucial as short track possessions on high-capacity lines. The 09-2X and 09-3X models are equipped with the same frame design, and the 09-2X employs 2-sleeper working technology. This 2-sleeper technology provides optimal conditions assuming tamping at maximum speed is less of a priority. You have the choice of either a classic 2-sleeper tamping machine or a machine which can switch to tamping individual sleepers using 1X mode (09-2X/SD).
100% under control
Complex processes, intuitive operation
Controlling and monitoring track maintenance machines through a user interface is crucial for high-quality maintenance. With state-of-the-art computer systems, it has become possible to further automate the operation of track maintenance machines and to provide optimal support for machine operators. This makes work easier and ensures consistent, highly reliable processes.
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Our high level of quality creates sustainability.
High-quality work extends the intervals between maintenance operations and ensures resources are used sparingly. In addition, Plasser & Theurer’s eco-friendly machines use consumables economically. We recommend Panolin lubricants for our products. These biodegradable oils are much eco-friendlier than other substances with the same effect. Your Plasser & Theurer machine allows operation in a train consist. This increases cost-efficiency and benefits the environment: the multiple traction control system during transfer travel reduces the costs and effort of transferring the machine under own power.
All around the world, rising levels of pollution and the ever increasing need for mobility are affecting our environment. For that reason, Plasser & Theurer is promoting the railway system as the eco-friendly mode of transport of the future.
