Train blowing over in a side-wind (IM-APT-182)

Last updated on 24 July 2014 4:13
An additional safeguard in winds is to assume that the entire train must be blown over rather that one coach. Such a scheme postulates a coupling which is stiff in roll and in the vertical plane. The vertical suspension of adjacent vehicles interacts. The coupling of intermediate coaches must be...
Author(s): Newman M.
Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;
1967
United Kingdom
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