Electric railways 1880-1990 / Michael C. Duffy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffy, M. C. (Michael C.)

Contributor:

Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Series:

History of technology series ; 31.

IEE history of technology series ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--Electrification.

Railroads.

Railroads--Electrification--History.

Railroads--Great Britain--Electrification.

Railroads--Great Britain--Electrification--History.

Electric railroads.

Electric railroads--Great Britain.

Electric railroads--Great Britain--History.

History.

Electrification.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxi, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Institution of Electrical Engineers, [2003]

Contents:

1 Telegraphs, track circuits and signals before 1890 1

1.2 Evolution of the basic signalling and communications system 3

1.3 First use of the track circuit 8

2 Electric railways and American practice 11

2.1 The pioneer period 11

2.2 Electrical engineering and railway systems 16

3 The electrification of street railways 23

3.1 The work of F. J. Sprague 23

3.2 The extension of the Sprague system 28

4 Heilmann, Ward Leonard and the electric railway 35

4.2 J. J. Heilmann and electric railway traction 35

4.3 The 'Fusee Electrique' of 1893 38

4.4 Heilmann and the Ward Leonard system 45

5 Electrification of British rapid-transit lines 51

5.1 Electric railways and the power supply 51

5.2 Alternating current power stations and transmission 53

5.3 The electrification of the Mersey Railway 55

5.4 Economic benefits of electrifying the Mersey Railway 58

5.5 The prospects for electric traction in Britain after the electrification of the Mersey Railway 61

5.6 Electrification of the London Underground 64

5.7 The influence of American electrical engineering 65

6 Electrification 1900-20 73

6.1 The Great Eastern Railway and the Liverpool Street Station experiment 73

6.2 Electric rapid-transit railways and general railway electrification 77

6.3 Locomotive working 81

6.4 LVDC lines and main line traffic 85

6.5 The electric railway and internal-combustion engined traction 92

7 Track circuits, describers and electrical signalling 1890-1920 95

7.2 Pioneer systems 96

7.3 Automatic signalling and related innovations 98

7.4 Main line signalling developments 106

7.5 Wireless telegraphy in train operations 109

7.6 Telephony and railway communications 112

8 Evolution of the electric railway 1920-40 115

8.2 The three-phase railway electrification system 115

8.3 Development of the single-phase traction system 121

8.4 The emergence of the single-phase archetype 126

8.5 Converter locomotives 130

8.6 Motor-converter locomotives 132

8.7 Phase-splitting locomotives 133

8.8 The Kando system 137

8.9 The high-voltage DC railway 139

8.10 The LVDC railway and the interurban network 144

8.11 The Presidents' Conference Car 146

9 Railway electrification and the thermal-electric locomotive 149

9.1 The thermal-electric locomotive and general railway electrification 149

9.2 The 'Electro-Turbo-Loco' of 1909 151

9.3 The Ramsay-Armstrong Whitworth locomotive of 1922 155

9.4 Internal-combustion locomotives and the transmission question 157

10 Converters, the mercury-arc rectifier and supply to electric railways 169

10.2 Rectification of power supply 169

10.3 Development of the industrial mercury-arc rectifier 174

10.4 The mercury-arc rectifier in railway traction 177

10.5 British railway rectifiers 180

11 Signalling, communications and control 1920-40 185

11.2 Signalling and interlocking 188

11.3 Speed signalling 193

11.4 Powered operation and interlocking 195

11.5 American practice 1920-40 202

11.6 British railway communications and control 1920-40 203

11.7 Train describer-recorders 204

12 Railway electrification 1920-40 207

12.2 Electric traction and the efficient use of fuel 207

12.3 The stagnation in British railway engineering 213

12.4 Lomonossoff and state ownership of railways 217

12.5 Railway electrification in Britain 1920-40 219

13 Electro-Motive, General Motors and oil-electric traction 225

13.2 Development of the Electro-Motive (General Motors) diesel locomotive 230

13.3 General Electric and the 'Steamotive' project 236

14 The mercury-arc rectifier locomotive 245

14.2 Westinghouse, General Electric and the Pennsylvania Railroad rectifier locomotives 249

14.3 The advent of the solid-state rectifier 255

14.4 The mercury rectifier in France and Britain 255

14.5 The static rectifier and post-war modernisation 256

14.6 The first British mercury-arc rectifier locomotive 258

15 Railway electrification in Britain 1920-60 261

15.2 The Weir Report 263

15.3 The acceptance of the HVAC standard in Britain 268

15.4 The impact of the new standard 275

15.5 Traction policy 1945-60 277

16 Signalling, communications and control 1940-70 283

16.2 Centralising signal boxes 1945-70 285

16.3 Automatic train describers and Program Machines 289

16.4 The automatic railway 293

16.5 Automatic warning, control and driving systems on main line railways 297

16.6 General trends 1940-70 300

17 Main line direct current traction in Britain 305

17.1 The electrical industry and the railways after 1945 305

17.2 LVDC electric locomotive development after 1945 309

17.3 The high-voltage direct current system 315

18 Main line alternating current traction in Britain 321

18.1 Advantages and disadvantages of the standard systems 321

18.2 Gaining AC expertise 322

18.3 The first production classes: AL1-AL5 325

18.4 The Class 87 and its significance 336

19 Solid-state electronics, motor control and the locomotive 339

19.1 The advent of solid-state control systems for locomotives 339

19.2 The Brown-Boveri system 341

19.3 The Deutsches Bundesbahn Class 120 344

19.4 Solid-state electronics and locomotive drive systems 347

19.5 The modular system 351

20 Solid-state electronics in signalling, communications and control 355

20.1 Centralised traffic control and interlocking 1965-85 355

20.2 The computer in signalling and control before 1985 360

20.3 Reversible working 363

20.4 The locomotive-mounted computer 364

20.5 Radio communications, signalling and control 368

20.6 Large-scale integration of systems 370

20.7 The moving block system 377

20.8 Automatic control of main line trains 381

21 The electric railway 1965-95 385

21.1 The need for increased performance 1965-95 385

21.2 The origins of very high speed train operations 388

21.3 The development of the SNCF train a grande vitesse 392

21.4 The British Rail Advanced Passenger Train project 399

21.5 Developments subsequent to the TGV 407

21.6 Current developments in main line electric traction 410.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0852968051

OCLC:

50748506