Network Rail Plant Show Westwood - May 2011
24 May 2011
Network Rail are hosting a plant event at their training centre near Coventry this week May 23-27. Ben visited on Monday to see what was on show... ...
News tagged as 'road railers'
Road-Railer News – January 2011
5 January 2011
After a relatively quiet period since the last report, here is the third update for Road Rail equipment. ...
Road-Railer News - February 2010
3 February 2010
This is the second update on Roadrailers and covers the period between October 2009 and February 2010. Once again, thanks to Peter Hall for supplying some information for this report. ...
Bruff Recovery lorries
2 December 2009
After recent discussions, an article based on our findings! ...
Road-Railer News - October 2009
7 October 2009
This first update is intended to summarise significant changes which have occurred since the publication of On Track Plant 2009 earlier this year. Special thanks to Peter Hall for supplying some of the information below. ...
Rexquote Gigacrane
9 December 2008
Rexquote have recently launched a new vehicle called the 'Gigacrane'. ...
Railway Moonbuggy
2 December 2008
An intriguing new trolley/road-rail machine has been developed by Smith Engineering. This is the Moonbuggy All Terrain Railway Vehicle (ATRV). ...
Hydrex Expansion
10 September 2003
Hydrex Equipment (UK) have recently acquired a large number of road-railer vehicles from several companies after taking them over. ...
RR list updates
17 May 2003 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Here are some updates to the current Road-Railer fleet lists and the OTP2003 book....
RR list updates
23 February 2003 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Here are some updates to the current Road-Railer fleet lists and the OTP2003 book....
RR list updates
18 January 2003 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Here are some changes to the current Road-Railer fleet lists....
Recent fleet list comments
11 August 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Here are some updates for some recent road-railer fleet lists included on the site. ...
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. ...
New and Old Atlas excavator changes
28 June 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Atlas Hydraulic Loaders have sold their three Atlas 1304KZW multi-purpose excavators. ...
Road-railer ownership changes
6 June 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Three Colmar T4300FS machines listed in the book are no longer owned by G Plant. ...
Drake & Sons fleet changes
1 May 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
A few changes have occurred to T L Drake & Sons fleet. ...
Trackwork/Hydrex 988 oddity
24 February 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
A quick update to the book ...
Former APC Track Services fleet
3 February 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
This list shows all road-railers formerly part of the APC fleet. The company has ceased trading, and most of the plant sold to other companies....
Ex-Hughes machines
1 February 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Some of you may be wondering why you have seen a Hughes road-railer but it isn't on the fleet list, and are thus confused by its identity....
Another Elec-Track vehicle
18 January 2002
Not a new one this time, but Elec-Track have purchased the Foden access platform, R909 LJF, from Harsco Track Technologies....
GrantPlant unimog
12 January 2002 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
A small gremlin has creeped into the OTP2000 book! ...
Brecknell Willis unimogs
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Brecknell Willis has sold both of it's Unimogs (Q826 GHG and Q454 JTT) to Border Rail. ...
First Engineering unimog
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
First Engineerings unimog (195435 in the book) has now been assigned a road registration. It is SN51NPO....
Komatsu sales
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
The Komatsu 410 (0001239, 1046) owned by Komatsu has since been sold to Readypower....
New (well, old) APWebb digger
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
APWebb have recently taken delivery of a newish O&K MH4S digger. Its fleet number is 040, and build number is 315502, 1995....
New BCL digger
29 December 2001 - thanks to Keith Cox for this article
BCL have taken delivery of a Rexquote/Komatsu PW170. Its fleet number is 0035, and build number is K32105 of 2001, 1467....
AB 2000 Geismar sale
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
AB 2000 have sold their Geismar KGT (4409) to Hiremee....
New Sinbad diggers
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall, John Griffiths for this article
Sinbad have taken delivery of a Rexquote/Caterpillar M312. Its registration is Y265BBC, fleet number is 302, and build number is 6TL 01325 of 2001, 1389. ...
New Hiremee machine
29 December 2001 - thanks to Ben Williams for this article
Hiremee have taken delivery of a Rexquote/Mecalac 12MXT. Its fleet number is 49, and build number is 026587 of 2001, 1424....
New Elec-Track Mecalacs
29 December 2001 - thanks to Ben Williams for this article
Elec-Track Installations have taken delivery of two Mecalac 12MXTs. Their fleet numbers are ETI02 and ETI03, and build numbers are 026586 of 2001, and 026647 of 2001 respectively....
New Hydrex Cases
29 December 2001
Hydrex RSD have taken delivery of at least two Case 988P Super Railers. ...
W & D McCulloch changes
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Unimog 171719 on page 92 is now J736PCS, as opposed to J868OSJ. ...
Keeping up with the Jones'
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Jones have taken delivery of a new Rexquote/Komatsu PW130 - K32123, 2001. Fleet number is 91. ...
WCRM OLE Alliance vehicles
29 December 2001 - thanks to Peter Hall for this article
Of the 8 Harsco/Volvo FL6.18 Catenary vehicles listed on page 96, only W536HJW 'exists'. Commissioning problems led to the other seven being re-registered as X851KOX - X854KOX and X856KOX - X858KOX (fleet numbers can be found on the hunt page). ...