Why tamping? Our technology easily explained!

When a train travels over a track, it generates enormous forces. The entire track consisting of rails, sleepers and ballast is an elastic system that deforms and returns to its original position. Tracks should be maintained at regular intervals - this includes levelling, lifting, lining and tamping. This ensures that the ideal geometry of the track is restored.
Tamping tines pack the ballast under the sleeper to produce a stable sleeper bed. Plasser & Theurer developed a mechanised technique for this purpose: the system of non-synchronous constant pressure tamping which in professional circles is regarded as pioneering and unequalled in quality.
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