Principles of design of hump yards with automatic and semi-automatic retarders on British Railways; to provide continuous control of cars throughout run, single stage of clasp-type retarders was provided normally in yards of up to 30 sidings and two stages in larger installations; performance of clasp-type retarders; calculation of car speeds and spacing; tabular method of computing time/distance curves.
Hump marshalling yards
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette ; 121 , n 14
1964
Article (Journal)
English
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