August/September 2010 News
6 October 2010
Several arrivals and departures occured during August/September. ...
News tagged as 'delivery'
Recent Arrivals
19 April 2010
The end of 2009 and start of 2010 saw several of Network Rail's new machines arrive into the UK. ...
DR 73946
21 November 2008
Recent news articles seem to be about machines getting scrapped and exported. It's been quite a while since a new machine arrived in the country! That changed at the start of November. ...
August / September News
17 September 2006 - thanks to Stuart Taylor for the photo. Vince for this article
Another few months have gone by - quite a lot has happened this time! ...
Recent bits (July 2006)
4 July 2006
Not a lot has happened lately, but I'll do a quick round up anyway. ...
Recent OTP News
16 March 2006 - thanks to Roy Hennefer, Pete Winch, Ben Williams for this article
Time for another quick round up of recent happenings in the OTP world. ...
GrantPlant's Christmas Presents
30 December 2005
Over the festive period, GrantPlant took delivery of four brand new machines. ...
DR 77904 arrives
25 November 2005
Network Rail have taken delivery of their second Plasser & Theurer USP 5000RT Ballast Regulator. ...
Machine Update
8 October 2005 - thanks to Roy Hennefer, Pete Winch, Ben Williams, Keith Gunner. Russell Wear for this article
Another few months have passed since the last update, and another few things have happened. ...
Machine Update (June)
15 June 2005 - thanks to Pete Winch, Nick Wilkinson, Mark Thomas for this article
It's been a busy(ish) 6 weeks since the last update! ...
Machine Update (April)
24 April 2005 - thanks to Chas Tallis, Charlie Cross, Pete Winch, Ben Williams for this article
A quick round up of recent (and not-so-recent) happenings.. ...
Machine Update (Dec.)
2 December 2004 - thanks to Chas Tallis, Peter Hall, Cromptoneer, Dave Shell, Brian Loughlin for this article
Quite a lot has happened during the last few months! ...
Machine Update (August)
9 August 2004 - thanks to Vince, Al Weiss, Pete Winch for this article
It has been a couple of months since the last update. Not much has happened though... ...
Machine Update (June)
1 June 2004 - thanks to Charlie Cross, Roj Fraser, Ben Williams, Peter Hall, Keith Gunner,Pete Winch for this article
A quick update regarding recent OTP developments. ...
Machine Update (March)
7 March 2004 - thanks to Vince, Ben Williams, Lerpass Mapter, Peter Hall for this article
There have been several developments recently, so here is a quick round-up of what has happened. ...
New GrantPlant Matisas
5 December 2003 - thanks to Vince, Roy Hennefer & Chas Tallis for this article
All three of GrantPlant's Matisa B41UE tamping machines are now in the country. ...
More New Plassers
7 September 2003 - thanks to Ben Williams, Alex Ford and Andy Manley for this article
Recently, several new vehicles built by Plasser & Theurer have been delivered. ...
New Machines Arrive
30 August 2003
During August, several new Items of On-Track Plant arrived in the country. ...
More new machines...
19 July 2003 - thanks to Vince, Ben Williams, Ted Knotwell, Nick Powell for this article
Since the last machine update, several new vehicles have arrived. ...
More new Plasser machines!
8 October 2002
During September, two new Plasser tampers arrived in the country for Balfour Beatty. ...
New Plasser machine for AMEC
31 July 2002 - thanks to Ben Williams for this article
Towards the end of July, a new Plasser 08-16/4x4C 100RT tamper arrived in the country for AMEC. ...
New Plasser machine for SECO-RAIL
28 June 2002 - thanks to Ben Williams for this article
Towards the end of May, a new Plasser 08-16(32)U RT tamper arrived in the country for SECO-RAIL. ...
I'm the (Rail) Boss
28 June 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
The highly versatile Rail-Ability RAIL-BOSS fleet has nearly doubled since the OTP2000 book was published. ...
Some new build numbers
19 March 2002 - thanks to Ben Williams for this article
Of the GTRM machines that were mentioned on order in an earlier article, all three have now been delivered. Their build numbers are listed below. ...
Plasser wagon build numbers (updated)
27 February 2002 - thanks to all who helped for this article
Here are the build numbers of the Plasser material handling train wagons listed in the OTP2000 book. All are presumed built in 2000, unless stated otherwise. ...
Some build numbers
23 January 2002 - thanks to all who helped for this article
These machines are all listed in the OTP2000 book, but at the time of publishing there was no info for them. Here are some build numbers from peoples observations. ...
New machine orders
2 January 2002
Since OTP2000 was published, at least 9 new machines have been ordered. ...
Grant Rail commission new machines
29 December 2001 - thanks to David Barlow for this article
Grant Rail Ltd are commissioning their new Swiss-built Matisa ballast regulator and tamping machines on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway during Summer and Autumn 2000. ...