MERRY-GO-ROUND TRAINS

The movement of coal from collieries to the power plants of the U. K. Coal Board's best customer, the CEGB/SSEB, has been transformed by the introduction of the imaginatively named merry-go-round trains which now carry three quarters of all railborne coal to power plant boilers. Planning, aims and efficiency of the concept of Merry-Go-Round working--a non-stop movement of a permanently coupled set of rail-cars from the colliery to the power plant and back again--are discussed, and the design of the system and the rail-cars is analyzed.

• Corporate Authors:

  Fuel and Metallurgical Journals Limited

  Queensway House, 2 Queensway, Redhill
  Surrey RH1 1QS,   England 
• Authors:
  • Rainbow, M
• Publication Date: 1977-6

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 319
• Serial:
  • Colliery Guardian
  • Volume: 225
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Queensway House

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bulk cargo handling; Cargo handling; Coal; Coal industry; Coal mines; Freight traffic; Ground transportation; Mine cars; Steam power plants; Unit trains
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Bulk handling
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167558
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 13 1978 12:00AM