Brakeblock developments - a support paper to the RIA's motive power course (IM-PBS-003)

Since cast iron became established as the standard railway braking material European Railways have independently coma to use similar pearlitic flake graphite irons of approximate composition 3.1% carbon, 1.656 silicon, 0.6% manganese, 0.15% sulphur, but with phosphorus levels varying between 0.2% and 1.3% (ref 1). Only France and Britain, with...