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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/13851</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The classical automatic marshalling yard with retarders, weigh rails, wagon rollability measurement, doppler radar speed measurement computers, etc. falls short of what is required.  Six new systems being developed in Europe are briefly described.  These systems will be evaluated by comparing the following quantities: installation costs, system capacity, annual maintenance costs, and shortcomings.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS. REPORT OF ENQUIRY</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This enquiry report contains a brief description of the known methods of measuring the speed of wagons in marshalling yards continuously or semi-continuously and a summary of the replies to the questionnaire sent from ORE to all the European Railway Administrations.  There are at present only 10 marshalling yards in Europe in which wagon speed is measured and of these five are in Britain.  In eight yards the wagon speed is measured by radar and the remaining two use devices placed at intervals in the track. It would appear that both these methods give reasonably accurate and reliable measurements which enable a wagon to leave the retarders at the calculated speed.  The measurement of speed at this point in the yard presents no real problem.  The problems which present difficulty at present in marshalling yards are the measurement of the other factors which influence the speed of impact of the wagon when it reaches its final siding.  Such factors are the rollability, wind, sun, snow and frost.  These factors often vary as a wagon is passing through a yard thus increasing the difficulty of accurately assessing them.  For these reasons some Administrations are now thinking of the Dowty system, which although more expensive to install will control the speed of wagons without the necessity of measuring all the above variables.  It is therefore suggested that the study of the present question should be incorporated in a new question entitled: "The control of wagon speed in modern marshalling yards".]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 1994 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS. COSTS OF THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/15118</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The report contains a calculation of the costs of automatic hump yards, incurred for the following systems:  (a) DB system with primary and secondary retarders and conveyor devices; (b) SNCF system with primary and secondary retarders; (c) BR system with hydraulic retarding and boosting units.  The cost calculation according to uniform standards is based on the installations described in Report D 74/RP 4 with 32 and 48 sorting sidings and it covers: (a) The cost of investments, (b) Capital charges, (c) Operating cost.  For each installation the total costs and the specific total costs relative to one shunted wagon are indicated.  A comparative assessment of the various systems according to the cost involved is rather problematic on account of the divergent economic conditions.  The indicated details can only be used as informatory for special investigations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS. THE POTENTIAL CAPACITY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF AUTOMATIC HUMPING SYSTEM</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/15302</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The capacities of the following systems are investigated: a) the system of the DB with primary and sorting-siding retarders followed by chains of retarders or rope conveyors (target-speed braking); b) the system of the CFF with primary and sorting-siding retarders followed by chains of retarders and rope conveyors (target-speed braking); c) the system of the SNCF with primary and sorting-siding retarders (target braking); d) the system of BR: Automatic Hump Yard with continuous control of the wagons by means of hydraulic retarder and booster units (BR Dowty).  The system of the DB for eight sorting-sidings has been operated in Duisburg-Wedau Marshalling Yard as an experimental installaton since 1967.  The CFF and FS are testing different items of the equipmnt for automatic hump yards. The system of the SNCF for eight sorting-sidings has been tested in Vaires Marshalling Yard since 1967.  The system of BR has been fully operational in Tinsley Yard since 1965 and in Bescot Yard since 1966.  Basic calculation data of the CFF and BR systems differ from the standard data of the investigation in some respects, and the possibility of comparing them with other systems is therefore limited.  All the systems considered have a high capacity.  The system of BR appears to provide maximum protection of wagon and load. Each system is considered operationally suitable.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS. THE POTENTIAL CAPACITY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF AUTOMATIC HUMPING SYSTEMS. (PART 1)</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/15339</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Hump Marshalling Yards vary so widely in size and technique that it is impossible to gain any valid comparison of the capacity unless common parameters are applied.  In this report, such values have been used to assess the capacities of 3 automatic systems, namely: (a) the system developed by the DB using primary and sorting siding retarder and booster units; (b) the system theoretically studied by the DR using 3 retarder stages; (c) the Dowty system developed by BR.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF THE SPEED OF WAGONS SHUNTED OVER HUMPS. INFLUENCE OF THE FUTURE GOODS WAGON ROLLING STOCK WITH AUTOMATIC COUPLERS ON THE CAPACITY OF AUTOMATIC HUMP SYSTEMS</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/14796</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The report concerns the capacity of automatic hump yards for the future, modernised goods wagon rolling stock with automatic couplers and roller bearing axle boxes; the length of the wagons will generally exceed that of the present wagons.  A study is made of the system with target braking and of that with controlled conveyance. Calculations are made of the attainable distances to be run in the sorting sidings according to the example of an ideal train.  The joint running of wagons with automatic couplers after the impact in the sorting sidings is shown in a nomogram, in relation to the masses, the resistance to rolling, the gradient of the sorting siding and the impact speeds delta v = 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 m/s.  In a special section the separation on the hump is described.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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