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What is railway camber?
The cant of a railway track or camber of a road (also referred to as superelevation, cross slope or cross fall) is the rate of change in elevation (height) between the two rails or edges.
Why railway coaches are painted blue?
You must have noticed that most train coaches are blue in colour indicating that these coaches are ICF coaches i.e their speeds vary between 70 to 140 kilometers per hour. Such coaches are installed in Mail Express or Superfast trains. ICF air conditioned trains like the Rajdhani Express use red coloured coaches.
What were the passenger coaches used for?
New passenger coaches were introduced to capture the niche market with quality of services. The passenger coaches were crushed between the goods waggons and the tender. Faster mail coaches began using the route in 1786, stimulating a quicker service from the other passenger coaches.
What are the objectives of providing superelevation on curves of a railway track?
Railway curves have influence on train speed on a curve and/or wheel/rail interface. Additional forces that have to be compensated appear in the curves. The purpose of superelevation is to compensate acceleration emerging in the curve thus assuring comfortable passenger transportation and equal wearing of both rails.
What is the railway coach?
Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches are the passenger coaches of Indian Railways that were developed by Linke-Hofmann-Busch of Germany (renamed Alstom LHB GmbH in 1998 after the takeover by Alstom) and mostly produced by Rail Coach Factory in Kapurthala, India.
What is coach in a train?
In rail terminology, a through coach is a passenger car (coach) that is re-marshalled during the course of its journey. It begins the journey attached to one train, and arrives at its destination attached to another train. Through coaches save their transit passengers the need to change trains themselves.
What is the purpose of a camber on a tire?
This ensures good stability, helps maintain straight-ahead direction and promotes steering wheel self-centering. Camber is the inward or outward tilt of the front tires as viewed from the front. Inward tilt is negative, outward tilt is positive. Camber is used to distribute load across the entire tread.
What happened to the Rye & Camber tramways?
The Rye & Camber Tramways Co. Ltd was liquidated in February 1949. A number of relics, including the frame and bogies of one of the carriages, can be seen at the Colonel Stephens Museum at Tenterden . Golf Links station building survives virtually intact.
What is caster and Camber in an alignment?
Factory alignment specs for basically all vehicles call for a certain degree of positive (shown) caster. This ensures good stability, helps maintain straight-ahead direction and promotes steering wheel self-centering. Camber is the inward or outward tilt of the front tires as viewed from the front. Inward tilt is negative, outward tilt is positive.
When was the Golf Links at Camber Sands built?
In 1908 the first extension to Camber Sands station was opened and the intermediate station renamed “Golf Links”. Camber Sands terminal was moved to a more accessible site and a tea hut was opened at the end of summer 1938, but this only used for a few months as the war intervened the next year.