The improvement in performance of plain bearing axleboxes part I - lubrication (TM-TRIB-003)

Between 1961 and 1964 the incidence of heated bearings in freight wagons fitted with plain bearing axleboxes increased sharply although the number of loaded wagons forwarded was decreasing. The average length of haul and average wagon load had not changed significantly and this sudden worsening of the situation was probably...