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==Use on the SVR==
OnTrackPlant.com recorded this machine as owned by B&R Track Services. It was photographed first noted at the Midland Railway Centre at Butterley between 1999 and 2002, at SVR in 2003 after which time it made various return visits. After 2011 it was effectively resident on the SVR in 2007, and regularly stabled at Highley as seen in the Llangollen Railway in 2009top photograph from 2015. By 2011 it had returned It also made occasional brief visits to the SVRother railways.<ref>[http://www.ontrackplant.com/otp/73202 Photos on OntrackPlant.Com]</ref> and since that time was regularly stabled at Highley as seen in the top photograph from 2015. It was in use at the SVR 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> 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]].
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 DR73292 moved to Bridgnorth, awaiting disposal.It subsequently moved to the Churnet Valley Railway where it was first seen in October 2020.<ref>Sightings on OnTrackPlant.com</ref>
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.
==See also==
[[Other rolling stockformerly resident on the SVR]]
==References==