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Investigation of recent fractures of ceramic collar neutral section insulators in service (TM-ETR-024)

Last updated on 22 November 2013 2:28

Neutral Sections are used in the overhead equipment to isolate sections of line at different voltages or with different phases. The pantograph must have a substantially level passage during this transition, but must not be able to short the two lire sections of contact wire. To prevent arcing between the...

Author(s): Bradwell A.;Wheeler J.C.G.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1974

United Kingdom

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