Brief description of electric railway coaches built by English Electric Co; each is used with driving trailer coach to handle heavy suburban passenger traffic at peak periods over severe gradients of Wellington and Johnsonville line; coaches are of all steel welded construction, interiors being sound insulated; d-c at 1500 v is collected from overhead contact wire by double pan light weight pantograph.


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    Title :

    Motor coaches for New Zealand government railways


    Additional title:

    Engineer


    Published in:

    Engineer ; 181 , n 4720


    Publication date :

    1946


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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