List of rail capable construction machinery?

[biggus]

Subject: Rail-capable construction/maintenance machines and mobile factories, UK and worldwide.

It would be great to have a list. If you know of anything, please contribute below, ideally with links to more info.

With the fragmented nature of railway construction contracts, and associated financial risks for infrastructure builders, I wonder if investment in this kind of machinery is currently adequate.

Please, NO Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) , dockyard cranes, factory hoists, etc. I wish to focus on machines that are essentially rail-mobile, so I am excluding permanent, semi-permanent or substantially site-specific machines.

Please add anything you know of.
Indicate whether it is or has been used in the UK
Indicate where based if not in UK
Also add any nice-to-to-have or experimental ideas, but mark them NTH or EXP accordingly.
Do add any further interesting info you have like manufacturer, age, original reason for procurement etc

Here is what is on my list of machines so far:

UK: High Output Ballast Cleaner (HOBC)
UK: Various road-rail 360 degree excavators
UK: Road-rail UniMog
UK: Various rail-mobile cranes (examples please)
DE: This lovely track laying factory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXouT0vnN-I Do we use it in UK?
CA: (UK has one also?) CWR transport train http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5WT5AzBBnI

Nice To Have (NTH): Concrete mixer/pump for ease of lineside construction. Exists or not?

NTH: Fence-building factory. I see crane mounted heads, hydraulically powered, robotically assisted, human operated. At least one head to drive posts and one more to attach the fencing to the posts. Steel pallisade panels or strained wires could be installed by the appropriate heads. The materials would be on flat wagons and shuttled by a little gantry crane like the one on the tracklaying factory above.

Biggus

 

[Ploughman]

Try looking or asking on here
http://www.ontrackplant.com/

 

[DarloRich]

Subject: Rail-capable construction/maintenance machines and mobile factories, UK and worldwide.

It would be great to have a list. If you know of anything, please contribute below, ideally with links to more info.

With the fragmented nature of railway construction contracts, and associated financial risks for infrastructure builders, I wonder if investment in this kind of machinery is currently adequate.

Please, NO Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) , dockyard cranes, factory hoists, etc. I wish to focus on machines that are essentially rail-mobile, so I am excluding permanent, semi-permanent or substantially site-specific machines.

Please add anything you know of.
Indicate whether it is or has been used in the UK
Indicate where based if not in UK
Also add any nice-to-to-have or experimental ideas, but mark them NTH or EXP accordingly.
Do add any further interesting info you have like manufacturer, age, original reason for procurement etc

Here is what is on my list of machines so far:

UK: High Output Ballast Cleaner (HOBC)
UK: Various road-rail 360 degree excavators
UK: Road-rail UniMog
UK: Various rail-mobile cranes (examples please)
DE: This lovely track laying factory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXouT0vnN-I Do we use it in UK?
CA: (UK has one also?) CWR transport train http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5WT5AzBBnI

Nice To Have (NTH): Concrete mixer/pump for ease of lineside construction. Exists or not?

NTH: Fence-building factory. I see crane mounted heads, hydraulically powered, robotically assisted, human operated. At least one head to drive posts and one more to attach the fencing to the posts. Steel pallisade panels or strained wires could be installed by the appropriate heads. The materials would be on flat wagons and shuttled by a little gantry crane like the one on the tracklaying factory above.

Biggus

This is a very odd post! I do wonder what you are on about.

Balfour "High Out Put Concrete Train" http://www.nurock.co.uk/news.php?news_id=87 or http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/...-concrete-train-supports-electrification.html

We have several track construction and Rail Delivery trains trains like the one shown in your OP in the UK - have a search in google

I am sure some of you think we just send out 47,000 blokes with shovels to fix the track :roll:

 

[biggus]

Thankyou Darlo for the interesting links, particularly the one relating to the High Output Concrete Train, newly commissioned I see. I am pleased to find that I have been so prescient in my specifications.

I was fully looking forward to guffaws of derision from some luddite or other for even suggesting that such a thing might be possible or desirable, but now I see that I am to be derided for not knowing that one had been built quite recently.

In my experience it is not just faster and easier, but better and more informative, to acquire knowledge directly from any human beings who may be keen to share it, rather than wading around in google for hours on end.

Did my attempt to clarify the scope of my question seem pedantic perhaps? If so, I meant no offense to the free-thinking denizens of this forum.

Perhaps your point is that I confused the topic of my own thread by musing on the financial aspects of investment in machinery. I would accept that criticism.

I think it would be interesting to know more about factory trains etc, past present, proposed and possible.

This is a very odd post! I do wonder what you are on about.

Balfour "High Out Put Concrete Train" http://www.nurock.co.uk/news.php?news_id=87 or http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/...-concrete-train-supports-electrification.html

We have several track construction and Rail Delivery trains trains like the one shown in your OP in the UK - have a search in google

I am sure some of you think we just send out 47,000 blokes with shovels to fix the track :roll:

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Thanks Ploughman, perhaps that's the answer.

Try looking or asking on here
http://www.ontrackplant.com/