An assessment of the validity of methods for predicting the response of a pantograph running under stitched equipment (TM-VTI-007)

A series of running tests have been carried out on a length of half-scale stitched equipment at the Melton Mowbray - Edwalton test track. The results have been analysed and compared with predictions from a newly developed theoretical method. The comparisons are encouraging, particulary for contact force, rather less so...