Plasser & Theurer Stopfexpress 09-3X tamping machine

This track tamping, levelling and straightening machine uses continuous tamping and is up to 50% more productive that cyclic-action tamping machines, and its regular use has been shown to increase track conservation intervals with the resultant financial savings.

It has two tamping units and a total of 48 tamping tines, which means it can tamp three sleepers in a single work cycle and reach a rate of 2,200m/h, making it the highest-performance tamping machine in Spain.

It can perform any type of tamping work on both conventional and international gauge track

• Absolute reference and fixed point working system.
• Computer-assistance guidance system with prior auscultation and computer optimization of geometry.
• 8-channel chart recorder for track parameters.