BR'S NEW TRIBOMETER TEST TRAIN

Adhesion varies with time, place and weather conditions in a manner at present little understood. To build up a picture of adhesion variation through the year over tracks carrying all types of traffic, a twelve-month adhesion test programme has been started to survey adhesion levels on a circular route embracing all these variables. BR has developed a tribometer test train and when the first test period finishes the results it has obtained will form a "data bank" of prevailing adhesion conditions from which the correlation between adhesion and such factors as type of traffic, weather and time of day, can be determined.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Ian Allan Limited

  Terminal House
  Shepperton, Middlesex  England  TW17 8AS
• Publication Date: 1973-7

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 269
• Serial:
  • MODERN RAILWAYS
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 298
  • Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing, Limited
  • ISSN: 0026-8356

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adhesion; Train track dynamics; Tribology
• Old TRIS Terms: Tribometer test trains; Tribometers
• Subject Areas: Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00048188
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 4 1974 12:00AM