Tamping machine
Bateadora
- Date
- 1931 (patente suiza 1932) · confidence medium
- Place
- Switzerland
- Credited to
- Charles-Auguste Scheuchzer
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A railway machine that compacts ballast under the sleepers with vibrating tines under pressure, replacing manual beating and allowing faster, more precise track levelling and alignment.
What it led to
- faster track maintenance less dependent on manual labour
- a requirement for concrete sleepers, too heavy to tamp by hand
- increasingly automated self-propelled railway machines
- smoother rides and less rail wear