Tests of modified AL5 type 25-kv a-c locomotives on British Railways in which rheostatic brake comes in automatically with vacuum brake application; comparison tests were made on timed and measured stops from various speeds with automatic rheostatic brake and standard proportional brake; tests proved that at no time was automatic rheostatic brake inferior to proportional air brake, run over same sections of track.
Automatic rheostatic brake tests
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 120 , n 11
1964
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Experimental automatic rheostatic brake scheme
Engineering Index Backfile | 1964
|Improved rheostatic brake for trolleybuses
Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
Rheostatic and regenerative braking
Engineering Index Backfile | 1948
|