Advanced passenger train - A possible configuration of quasi-articulated train without special steering-linkage to leading wheelset (IM-APT-191)

Last updated on 16 September 2014 11:00
The problem of obtaining an 8-module, 68ft long intermediate vehicle of standard width which does not violate the loading-gauge on curves can be solve by combining radial steering of the wheelsets with throw-over of the body relative to the wheelsets. In Figure 1 the symetrical steering-linkage shown at the second...
Author(s): Boocock D.
Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;
1967
United Kingdom
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