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Kenya wagon drag braking tests (TM-TRIB-38)

Last updated on 07 April 2014 11:13

Wagons fitted with a two stage (tare/loaded) brake, sold by BRE-Metro Ltd to Kenya Railways, showed excessive brakeblock wear in service. This was because they were run in mixed trains with wagons having only a single stage brake. As a result of full scale tests performed on the brake dynamometer...

Author(s): Beamond TW;Broster M

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1979

United Kingdom

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