DR 80200 - Pandrol Jackson Stoneblower
Photo of DR 80200 at Ashford OTPD - 15 March 2003. Neil Crompton.
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tony p
7 May 2004, 22:47:33
to most of the early stoneblower operators this machine was where it all started ,being the training machine. it worked great one day then made you pull your hair out the next, great times though, i miss it.
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steve umney
21 April 2006, 15:20:52
you could always come back to the best company tony ha ha
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dietryin
6 October 2006, 22:44:12
good company steve? i worked with you at guide bridge, didn't seem so nice then. by the way, stone blowers must be the worst invention to track technology in the history of the railway.
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Dan Ryder
14 February 2007, 15:23:51
I am sorry but I disagree with dietryin, as a P-Way Tech lad at Holbeck, I make frequent use of 80202 and 80209, and although they have their problems on occasion (some may argue operator abuse...!..) it is pretty much a proven fact that they improve the track quality significantly, especially lining SDs due to their staggering length over a 07.... Best thing to come from America.....
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Midnight Cowboy
14 February 2007, 17:44:19
Best thing developed in America from a British Invention!!!!!!!!
If we're getting to the truth.
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Kevin
14 February 2007, 18:53:34
Rumour has this machine might be scrapped
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Dan Ryder
15 February 2007, 12:19:42
Yes, a Derby research idea the stoneblowing. Shame the ACEs and TGEs of the time didnt accept the idea. Although it has to be said there are critics, and it is important that it is used as a core maintenance utility, i.e. to support the "right" type of ballast conditions....Anybody know of a Kevin Cole?
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ian saunders
23 March 2007, 21:55:37
are these machines intended to work along with the tampers or to replace tampers on all but the heavy jobs ?
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Midnight Cowboy
24 March 2007, 10:12:26
A blower is purely a maintenance machine. It doesn't have the ability to work in a renewals site in the manner that a tamper does. Also the machines geometry controls are not designed to work in the same manner as a tamper. A blower is able to alter track geometry to a small extent, but there is no facility to upload a geometry design into the machine and then create the design in the same manner that a tamper could. Thing to remember is blowers (or PBI's as they were originally designated) are MSP machines (measured shovel packing). And as any P-way supervisor will tell you, MSP work and Tamping are not the same. As already mentioned, blowers create fantastic results when lining because of there massive length. They are brilliant for maintenance in the right conditions.
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