Electric Trains

It is indicative of the rapid progress of the application of electricity to the propulsion of railway trains, that it is no longer possible, within the bounds of a single volume, to cover the entire subject with any approach to adequacy. Indeed, in limiting my programme to Electric Trains, I have still found the field too wide to be dealt with effectively, and I have consequently confined the treatment to Electric Trains for City and Suburban Service, thus purposely excluding the large and important subject of Electric Locomotives. Even with this restricted programme I have considered that it is impossible, without incurring the risk of diverting the reader's attention from the logical development of my subject, to introduce much material descriptive of the apparatus coinprised in the electrical equipment. I have endeavoured to make amends for this by including references to publications in which useful descriptive matter may be found.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS EMPLOYED.

CHAPTER I SPEED-TIME DIAGRAMS

CHAPTER II THE INFLUENCE OF THE NUMBER OF STOPS PER MILE, AND OF THE DURATION OF EACH STOP

CHAPTER III THE PREPONDERATING INFLUENCE OF MOMENTUM IN A SERVICE WITH FREQUENT STOPS

CHAPTER IV A METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF TRAINS, ON THE ASSUMPTION OF NEGLIGIBLE TRAIN FRICTIONAND OF ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. EFFICIENCY OF THE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT ON THE TRAIN

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