98500 / 68500 - Plasser & Theurer TASC-45
Owner - ** Preserved Vehicles
Preserved at: Nene Valley Railway
Livery: Yellow
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All Sightings
| Location | Date | Observer |
|---|---|---|
| Nene Valley Railway - Wansford | 23 Dec 2007 | Brian Stanway |
| Nene Valley Railway - Wansford | 18 Dec 2005 | Vince |
| Wansford - Nene Valley Railway | 5 Nov 2005 | Alex Betteney |
| Wansford | 17 Sep 2005 | Kenneth Baird |
| Wansford - Nene Valley Railway | 2 Jul 2005 | Chas. Tallis |
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Comments
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9 January 2007 - Kevin
I would check the piston liners we used to change these quite regular.The TASC's used to run very warm as well because of where the engine sat
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14 March 2007 - Michael winter
The engine has now been stripped down. One piston is damaged,replacement parts have been ordered. When they have arrive the engine will be rebuilt. Once the engine is ok and runs it will be replaced on the machine. The the rest of the machine will then be overhauled. Report as of 13/03/07.
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1 February 2008 - mark althorpe
the engine on tasc machine was started up on wensday 30 01 2008 . the first time since it was saved for preasavtion
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2 February 2008 - Roy Hennefer
Mark, To see a pic of it when it was new go to
http://roy-hennefer.fotopic.net/p23070194.html
If you'd like a cc email me off Group.
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2 February 2008 - ian saunders
what are the rollers for bellow the buffers
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2 February 2008 - Bryan
Would they be legs for stabilising when the jib is in use? But still enabling movement forward and back.
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2 February 2008 - Simon Warnes
The small metal boxes above the rollers contain hydraulic cylinders that lower the rollers. One of the main reasons the rollers were used in the design is that if you are moving the TASC and back filling into a trench the vechile would be very unsable. So the rollers inable the machine to move both forward and reverse with the Hiab or Tipper deployed.
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2 February 2008 - Dave Shell
Good to hear Mark - thanks for the update
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2 February 2008 - ian saunders
were they fitted to all the TASC units or just to this 1 as I cant see them on any of the other pics on this site
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3 February 2008 - Jon Horswell
What did TASC stand for?
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3 February 2008 - Ben Williams
Track And Service Car
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3 February 2008 - Jon Horswell
Thanx - neat little vehicles I thought. Glad to see a few in preservation.
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3 February 2008 - Ben Williams
Yes good to see two preserved - shame three have been scrapped though. 98506 was exported and the last one remains at Slateford OOU.
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3 February 2008 - Dave Shell
It would be nice to enquire about the slateford one again. It would be very useful especially for construction of the Aln Valley...
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16 July 2008 - Neil Mc Millan
This was the only tasc with rollers, the chassis was extended to enable a bigger crane to be fitted (originally supplied with a hiab 030) the rollers aided the stabillity and enabled the machine to be moved short distances in crane mode.
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5 October 2008 - M Winter
The reason this TASC has a different crane is that we believe it was driven under a bridge with the original crane left raised.
Hence a replacement crane had to be fitted.
The engine has been overhauled further progess on restoration is progressing slowly,as we have been waiting to obtain some brake valves.
Most of the cab gauges were smashed while it was in store at Perth and we are hoping to source these soon.
This TASC was improved so that it could pull a wagon and has a train air brake system.
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14 April 2009 - Dave Blacksmith
where is this taken? on the inverness mainline? tracks look very rusty though...
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15 April 2009 - Alan Davies
I would say that this photo is taken out the back of the Perth OTP shed on the opposite side from the main yard, the photogragher is likely standing on the concrete at the shed entrance ??
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15 April 2009 - Kevin Morrison
Alan thats is very sad that after all these years you still recognise this location within perth yard
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19 April 2009 - mark althorpe
since last year when the engine was tryed w found we have a leaking head on the engine when it got damge to cure this problem we taken the head off and found there was i hight spot which have been removed and has the leaking head
also we have sent our broken gauges away for repair to company called speedy cables and we expecting then back shortlyand iwil show some photos on here when i get then
also if any body know where some spare for this is then i would apperitacte if u get in touch with me
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20 April 2009 - mark althorpe
THE tasc machine engine has know been rebuilt . and we run it up for first time 0n the 1/ 02/ 2008. we found out we had a leakingcylinder head which was letting fumes out. to sort this out we taken the head off again and when removed we found a height spot on this has know being removed and the engine was run up again on the 11/04 2009 and this problem has know gone away.also we sent our broken gauges away for repair to a company called speedycables when this are fitted back on the machine iwill show some photos if any body knows where there is some spare parts for this machine pleasce get in touch with me pleasce
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30 August 2010 - Dave Shell - Northumbria Rail Ltd.
It was looking good when Craig and I dropped by Wansford on Saturday (28/08/10). I'm glad we were able to provide some stickers (aquired by us from Jarvis/Fastline) to help with the repaint. (Thanks again for the tools guys).
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3 May 2011 - Vince
Now looking much tidier - here's a photo taken in April 2011.