STEERING-BOGIE DEVELOPMENTS BEING PURSUED BY BRITISH RAILWAYS

Requirement to take up an approximate radial position in curves to minimise flange and rail wear and with the need for stiff primary-suspension to overcome hunting, cross-bracing is introduced as a simple arrangement and forming two "A" frames pivoted at the bogie centre. More sophisticated method applied to a "rapid-transit" air-sprung bogie where damping relaxes on entering a curve and so presents a yaw-relaxing condition. A cross-brace alternative will be tested alongside.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Broadfields (Technical Publishers) Limited

  Little Leighs
  Chelmsford, Essex CMB 1PM,   England 
• Authors:
  • Illingworth, R
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 51-52
• Serial:
  • Rail Engineering International
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: De Rooi Publications
  • ISSN: 0141-4615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bracing; Car trucks (Railroads); Flanges; Hunting (Dynamics); Railroad rails; Rapid transit cars; Steering; Suspensions; Trucks; Vehicle design; Wear
• Identifier Terms: British Rail
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cross bracing
• Subject Areas: Motor Carriers; Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00345986
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Railways
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1982 12:00AM