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Overhead line maintenance

Various hi-rail trucks are used to get works crews close enough to the overhead lines for maintenance.

Hi-rail equipped scissor lift truck at the Metro Tunnel work site at Tottenham

Tuesday 24 September 2019 12:28 PM
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(1 time this month, 23 times this year)

Hi-rail equipped boom lifts at the Metro Tunnel work site at Tottenham

Tuesday 24 September 2019 11:35 AM
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(1 time this month, 19 times this year)

Hi-rail fitted RFW truck with scissor lift for accessing overhead wiring

Saturday 3 August 2019 9:33 AM
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(2 times this week, 3 times this month, 100 times this year)

Directly driven rail wheels of a type 9A hi-rail fitted boom lift with

Thursday 23 May 2019 3:55 PM
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(4 times this month, 47 times this year)

'Rear' wheels of a hi-rail fitted boom lift with type 9B 'high-ride' friction drive onto a friction hub fixed to the rail wheels

Thursday 23 May 2019 3:55 PM
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(2 times this month, 61 times this year)

Hi-rail fitted boom lifts with type 9B 'high-ride' friction drive onto a friction hub fixed to the rail wheels

Thursday 23 May 2019 3:55 PM
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Hi-rail fitted boom lift with type 9A directly driven rail wheels

Thursday 23 May 2019 3:55 PM
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(3 times this month, 111 times this year)

Hi-rail fitted boom lift with type 9B 'high-ride' friction drive onto a friction hub fixed to the rail wheels

Thursday 23 May 2019 3:55 PM
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(3 times this month, 49 times this year)

Hi-rail bucket lift truck stabled in the Melbourne Yard stabling sidings

Thursday 11 December 2014 6:12 PM
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Austbreck pantograph on the top of the modern hi-rail truck

Saturday 7 July 2012 11:31 AM
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(7 times this month, 12 times this year)

Rear of the modern hi-rail truck, the work platform can be manouvered in all directions

Saturday 7 July 2012 11:31 AM
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(5 times this month, 5 times this year)

Modern hi-rail truck for overhead line maintenance

Saturday 7 July 2012 11:31 AM
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(1 time this week, 6 times this month, 7 times this year)

Hi-rail bucket lift truck working on the overhead at Middle Footscray

Sunday 18 March 2012 4:27 PM
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(3 times this month, 3 times this year)

RFW all-wheel-drive hi-rail at work renewing the contact wire between West Footscray and Tottenham

Saturday 7 August 2010 4:42 PM
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(1 time this month, 1 time this year)

RFW all-wheel-drive overhead line maintenance truck, outside Altona station during an occupation

Sunday 1 August 2010 1:05 PM
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(2 times this week, 7 times this month, 10 times this year)

RFW hi-rail fitted with a cherrypicker, at work at Craigieburn

Sunday 30 August 2009 12:04 PM
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(11 times this month, 12 times this year)

RFW hi-rail fitted with a cherrypicker, at work at Craigieburn

Sunday 30 August 2009 12:03 PM
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(3 times this month, 4 times this year)

Pair of RFW hi-rail trucks working on the overhead lines at Laverton

Saturday 6 June 2009 11:54 AM
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(1 time this month, 1 time this year)

RFW hi-rails working on the overhead at Laverton

Saturday 6 June 2009 11:52 AM
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(3 times this month, 3 times this year)

RFW hi-rails working on the overhead at Laverton

Saturday 6 June 2009 11:51 AM
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(7 times this month, 8 times this year)

Pair of RFW hi-rail trucks at Laverton: one with a reel of cable, the other with a cherry picker

Saturday 6 June 2009 11:50 AM
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(4 times this month, 6 times this year)

RFW hi-rail fitted with a cherrypicker

Saturday 7 March 2009 10:16 AM
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(4 times this month, 4 times this year)

RFW hi-rail fitted with a cherrypicker

Saturday 7 March 2009 10:16 AM
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(3 times this month, 4 times this year)

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