Patent ID: 8616133

Claim:
A tamping machine for tamping a track, comprising: a track lifting unit; a plurality of drives configured to vertically adjust the track lifting unit; a plurality of on-track undercarriages configured to support the tamping machine; a tamping unit wherein said tamping unit and said track lifting unit are positioned between the on-track undercarriages, wherein said track lifting unit is positioned in front of said tamping unit with regard to a working direction of the machine; wherein the track lifting unit is configured to level and line a main track on which the on-track undercarriages are travelling; a beam, extending perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the machine; an auxiliary lifting device fastened to said beam and designed for lifting a branch rail of a switch branching off the main track wherein said auxiliary lifting device comprises: a lifting tool designed to be applied to a rail head, comprising: two disk-shaped thrust rollers, spaced from one another in the longitudinal direction of the machine and rotatable in a common plane of rotation, for application to a first side face of the rail head and which are connected to the auxiliary lifting device; a flanged roller is provided for application to a second side face of the rail head and for resting the auxiliary lifting device on said rail head; wherein the auxiliary lifting device is pivotable relative to the beam about an axis which is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the machine by means of a drive.