DR 73107 - Plasser & Theurer 09-32 CSM Tamper / Liner
Photo of DR 73107 at Reading - 12 March 2007. sledgebloke.
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Tam Perop
18 March 2008, 20:20:49
Far away from its original (s)tamping ground as this one was based in Scotland many many years ago
Was once modified to overcome engine throttle motor problems by the fitting of air throttle system .
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Kevin
19 March 2008, 15:20:03
This left Scotland a long time ago was swapped for 73429
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Tam Perop
19 March 2008, 20:27:02
Sorry , Kev , it was replaced by 73433 which in turn was exchanged 73429 a year or so later
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Lerpassmapter
20 March 2008, 19:16:08
73107 (Scotland) was swapped with 73433 (ER).
Then after the old Eastern Region realised their mistake of swapping a machine that they had just spent a lot of money getting ATA fitted (with a few red faces), they managed to get 433 back by swapping it with 429 (non-ATA machine).
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tony
24 March 2008, 00:16:58
They did the right thing when they swapped this back for 73433 at Leeman road, it was getting really stupid crews going out every night and trying to outdo each other.
The yardage was up but it was a complete waste of time as the worksites were going off faster than they could tamp them, back came 73433 and sanity returned thy still got there 3 miles a weekend but the track SD,s meant something.
We had certain guys at York who were absolutely petrified of this machine, the tamp speed was wound up to full and the squeeze times wound down to minimum, the machine used to take off and run away with them :) they were out of the door quicker than you could say, "rights let take the chains off ready for work "lol.
Shame really as this was a good machine if worked correctly and you could also achieve some renewals tamping with a good crew.
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Lerpassmapter
24 March 2008, 01:53:50
Maybe you read this wrong Tony, 433 came back to ER and 429 went to Scotland. 107 stayed in the ER for quite some time but ended up working round West Yorkshire. But I know what you mean about the Crews trying to do eachother with 107.
Taking the squeeze counter to bits and modding it with superglue to bottom the min squeeze time, and playing with the p500 timers calmed them down a bit!
And if they winged I used to love winding up the reverse/horn timer to about 5 secs so if they was tamping too fast and overshot a sleeper, reversing back took longer!
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