19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
65 ton Track Renewals Train Sleeper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE., Location : Kingmoor Yard Sorting Sidings., Date : 6/10/2018., Type : Bogie Sleeper Carrying Wagon., Weight : 24.9t Tare / 40.1t Capacity / 65t GLW., Number : DR 92632., Number Series : DR 92601 to DR 92650., Builder : W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Works, Derbyshire., TOPS Code : YXA., CCE Code : no name allocated., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., These bogie sleeper carriers were designed specifically to work with the Matisa P95 Track Renewal Train. The P95 machines are a mobile sleeper renewal factory removing old sleepers and replacing them with new ones in the track formation with the rails simply lifted beneath the machine while the sleepers are swapped. From new they operated from the RMC concrete Works at Washwood Heath to various High Output Operations bases around the UK where they would be married up with the machine for weekend or overnight renewals., Despite the fact both Matisa P95 machines are still working in the UK 41 of the original wagons have now been stored out of use in Kingmoor Yard for 3 years. A further 15 wagons of the same type were constructed in 2007 with no's DR 92651-665 so these I assume remain in use. I was under the impression one of the HOTR Train operating machines was returned to Austria in 2019 but this does not appear to be the case so can anyone shed any light on why these relatively new wagons are now redundant., ,
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