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tamping machine en · NOUN
Meanings
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A self-propelled rail-mounted machine used to pack or tamp ballast under railway tracks; a ballast tamper.
A near-miss between a tamping machine and a passenger train at Balham Junction on April 20 2019 was caused by a lack of information, lack of querying instructions and poor safety-critical communications.
2020 February 12, “Network News”, in RAIL, page 24:The BRB has ordered from Plasser & Theurer, through Plasser Railway Machinery (GB) Ltd., a total of 27 Plassermatic VKR-05-E hydraulic track levelling and tamping machines with electronic-beam levelling units.
1964 October, “News: New tamping machines for WR”, in Modern Railways, page 277:By 1958, there will be available for service 100 ballast tamping machines and 16 ballast cleaning machines.
1957 January 14, “Modernisation Plan Progress”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
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tamping iron