Railway-Track-Lifting-Straightening- and Tamping-Machine

A Railway-Track-Lifting-Straightening- and Tamping-Machine is a construction machine used to compact ballast stones in the superstructure of railroad sleepers. The tamping device of this machine is equipped with a vibrating tamping pick, which is inserted into the ballast stones and used to efficiently compact the ballast under the sleeper by horizontal movement.

ATP Hydraulik had the opportunity to overhaul the hydraulic systems of the Vanomag AG Railway-Track-Lifting-Straightening- and Tamping-Machine.

History of the Railway-Track-Lifting-Straightening- and Tamping-Machine:

The first manual tamping machines were introduced by the Prussian State Railways in 1916. Later, compressed air powered tamping machines were developed, which were powered by a mobile electric compressor and could be connected to several devices. Power was supplied by a mobile gasoline generator. In 1938, the first self-propelled tamping machine was introduced in the Swiss construction journal.