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The Real Heroes of the Tracks - India

Abhinav Sharma is a supervisor on the 08-275 Unimat 3S and travels all over India for work: “I usually work far away from home. My home is Andhra Pradesh: by train it takes two days to get there from where we are right now, for example. Obviously I miss my family; I only see them twice a year. In our job, you don't get home that often, so you have to learn to live with that.”

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Efficient maintenance with a green fleet
Reliable rail network operations even under extreme conditions

Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) are setting new standards in track maintenance on their rail network maintenance by introducing an ultra-modern, environmentally friendly fleet. Following an EU-wide invitation to tender, Plasser & Theurer was awarded the contract for 56 high-tech hybrid vehicles. Not only does this bring technological progress, but also a gradual phase-out of the ÖBB fleet's older…

Schneeräumung mit dem Schwerlastfahrzeug OBW 100.256 S

Successful winter services

Right on time for the cold season, the Croatian state railway put new snow removal vehicles into operation. They keep tracks snow-free more efficiently.

Track laying for India’s largest railway construction project

Produced at Plasser India, three SVM 1000 I track laying trains are working on the largest infrastructure project in India. The impressive construction projects include a dedicated freight corridor…

Machine operator driven by passion: living for tamping machines

Grzegorz Pyrzyk and Daniel Baba have been travelling all over Poland as machine operators for many years. Grzegorz Pyrzyk has spent practically his entire working life with tamping machines: “As soon…

Fast through the night

On the high-speed line LGV Sud-Est (Ligne à grande vitesse Sud-Est) between Paris and Lyon renewal of the entire ballast bed has been carried out since 2009. Plasser & Theurer machines have been…

Optimum welding quality and great versatility

In May 2020, Swietelsky AG purchased our cutting-edge APT 1500 RL road-rail welding robot. The company has been operating it on various European railway worksites from Croatia to Denmark ever since.…

Upgrade from the assembly line - the ecological procedure

North-west of Hamburg, the railway line to Cuxhaven was rehabilitated in sections. In several construction phases, our machines rehabilitated the formation, cleaned the ballast bed, exchanged rails…