DERAILMENT AT READING

A train travelling 15 mph between Reading General and Reading West stations derailed when a cess-side rail containing three wheelburns broke. A previous report by the Audigage ultrasonic flaw detector operator indicated two wheelburn cracks 1/4- and 1/2-in. long in the side of the rail head. It was concluded that a transverse brittle fracture occurred during passage of a previous train at the location of a wheelburn. Fatigue flaws at the wheelburns had been propagated by many thousands of loading cycles until the vertical flaws extended to cover about half the cross section of the rail head.

• Corporate Authors:

  Temple Press Limited

  161-166 Fleet Street
  Longon EC4,   England 
• Publication Date: 1967-6-2

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 433
• Serial:
  • RAILWAY GAZETTE
  • Volume: 123

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Derailments; Diesel locomotives; Electric locomotives; Failure; Fatigue (Mechanics); Fatigue (Physiological condition); Inspection; Locomotives; Nondestructive tests; Passenger trains; Railroad rails; Railroad trains; Technology; Ultrasonic tests; Welded rail
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Rail failure; Wheel burn
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00037819
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 13 1976 12:00AM