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Capacitor compensation of overhead line voltage drops (TN-ETR-9)

Last updated on 23 April 2013 10:03

When a current is drawn from the overhead line to a train distant from the feeder station, there is a voltage drop in the overhead due to its resistance and inductance. In emergency conditions when one feeder station is inoperative, the adjacent feeder station has to supply twice the...

Author(s): Armstrong D.S.;Tuck E.M.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1972

United Kingdom

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