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Model tests on frame of plasser CTM06-16 track tamping & lining machine-second series (IM-TS-072)

Last updated on 17 July 2013 9:57

As a result of fatigue failures in CTMO6-16 machines in BR service a stress investigation of the frame was undertaken by the Research and Development Division. This included the construction and testing, in 1974, of a 1/5 scale Perspex model of the machine's frame. A number of modifications to the...

Author(s): Thornton P.J.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1976

United Kingdom

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