Yard designed to reduce transit time between England and Scotland by extensive use of automatic marshaling equipment; operation of yard involves automatic route setting in switching area between hump and sorting sidings and measurement of speed, weight, and rolling resistances for each cut of cars; analog computer determines retarder leaving speed appropriate to conditions for each particular car and destination.
Automatic marshalling yard at Kingmoor, Carlisle
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 117 , n 7
1962
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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