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COLAS RAIL: The fourth member of Colas’ Plasser & Theurer Unimat 09-4x4/4S Dynamic Tamper fleet to arrive in the last year has now passed through the ‘Chunnel’, No. DR 75011 (99 70 9123 011-7) being recorded at Dollands Moor on February 15. It was moved north, likely to Plasser’s site at West Ealing, two days later by Nos. 66002 and 66206. It joins No. DR 75010 (99 70

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