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[[File:BR_DR73202_20150411.jpg|thumb|300px|right|DR73202 at Highley in 2015]] [[File:73202_20190723.jpg|thumb|300px|right|DR73202 at Highley in 2019]]
DR73202 was built in 1973 as works number 1041, and allocated BR Departmental number DB965957.<ref name=Butcher>Roger Butcher, ‘Track Machines, Second Edition’ (1985)</ref> It was initially allocated to the London Midland Region<ref>[[Bibliography#Other References|Larkin Vol 2 (2012)]] p.41.</ref> In 1985 it was in use in the Birmingham area.<ref name=Butcher/>
==Use on the SVR==OnTrackPlant.com last recorded this machine as owned by B&R Track Services. It has been was photographed at the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley between 1999 and 2002, at the SVR in 2007, and at the Llangollen Railway in 2009. By 2011 it had returned to the SVR.<ref>[http://www.ontrackplant.com/otp/73202 Photos on OntrackPlant.Com]</ref>. It is seen and since that time was regularly stabled at Highley and as seen in the top photograph from 2015. It was in use on 12/-13 June 2019.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156438680809021&set=pcb.10156382410261989&type=3&theater&ifg=1 Davies, M., SVR Unofficial Facebook, 12 June 2019]</ref> It was and again in use on 23 July 2019 , on the latter occasion to tamp a section of track between Highley and Hampton Loade following repairs resulting from the derailment of [[75069]] by a fallen tree; . Although notionally self-propelled, the second picture shows it returning to Highley being propelled by [[BR Class 37 37688 Great Rocks]]. By In July 2020 it was reported "DR73202 is getting very tired and it has been decided to retire it as it is becoming unreliable. It will be leaving the SVR shortly and will be used as a donor of parts for other tampers".<ref>Bob Foster, Unofficial SVR Facebook, 31 July 2020</ref>. In the same month '''DR73309 Plasser & Theurer 07-275 Switch & Crossing Tamper''' arrived on hire as its replacement. In August 2020 it DR73292 moved to Bridgnorth, awaiting disposal.
Since 2014, [[Other rolling stock visiting the SVR|other rolling stock visiting the SVR]] has included other Plasser and Theurer Switch and Crossing Tampers such as DR73309 and DR73903.
