THE Egyptian Ministry of Transport, through the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), has signed a contract with Plasser & Theurer for the supply of 14 track maintenance machines for Egyptian National Railways (ENR).
The track machines will support the maintenance, renewal and enhancement of Egypt’s mainline network. The order consists of:
- four 09-2X/SD plain-line tamping machines for the continuous correction of track geometry in one or two-sleeper mode
- two 08-4x4/4S universal tamping machines for the maintenance of turnouts and crossings. The tamper features integrated three-rail lifting and the option to fix the diverging rail in place
- five USP 2005 ballast profiling machines, fitted with an integrated sweeping unit and ballast hopper. They can be used bidirectionally to create the required ballast bed profile
- two RM 80-750 ballast cleaning machines for the efficient cleaning of plain-line track and turnouts, with an integrated crossfall and excavation depth control as well as additional trailers, and
- one APT 1500 RA self-propelled rail welding machine.
All machines will be delivered with Plasser & Theurer’s operation and machine maintenance planning software, Datamatic 2.0.
In addition to this order, Plasser & Theurer is supplying 30 track machines for Egypt’s high-speed rail project. The Austrian company has supplied more than 120 track machines to Egypt, delivering its first machine in 1959.
Caption: the contract signing ceremony took place in early October and was attended by Kamel Al-Wazir, Egypt’s minister of industrial development and transport, Georg Pöstinger, Austrian ambassador to Egypt, and Johannes Max-Theurer, CEO of Plasser & Theurer.
