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• Station Layout-- Rolling Stock-- Depots and Workshops-- Track-- Earthworks, Drainage and Fencing-- Bridges and Structures-- Tunnels and Tunnelling-- Electrification-- Signalling and Train Control-- Systems and Communications-- Lifts, Escalators and Pumps-- Ventilation and Draught Relief-- Future Trends.
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This textbook covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a 'broad brush' way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining a railway. It covers all types of railway systems including light rail and metro as well as main line. The first edition has proved very popular both with students new to railways and with practicing engineers who need to work in this newly expanding area. In the second edition, the illustrations have been improved and brought up to date, particularly with the introduction of 30 colour pages which include many newly taken photographs. The text has been reviewed for present day accuracy and, where necessary, has been modified or expanded to include reference to recent trends or developments. New topics include automatic train control, level crossings, dot matrix indicators, measures for the mobility impaired, reinforced earth structures, air conditioning, etc. Recent railway experience, both technical and political, has also been reflected in the commentary.
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• Front Cover; Automation and Control in Transport; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; NOTATION;
• Chapter 1. Dynamic Systems; 1.1 System concepts; 1.2 Open-loop systems; 1.3 ""Feedback""-closed-loop systems; 1.4 The phase-plane diagram;
• Chapter 2. Route Capacity-Laws for Vehicle Following; 2.1 Lane capacity; 2.2 Car-following theory; 2.3 Automatic vehicle systems;
• Chapter 3. Control of Vehicle Spacing-Railway Signalling; 3.1 Necessity for signalling on railways; 3.2 The ""train-order"" system; 3.3 The ""block"" system; 3.4 Lock and block; 3.5 Multiple-aspect signalling.

• Chapter 4. Problems of Congestion-Traffic Regulation4.1 Random events; 4.2 Queues-Poisson arrivals-constant service times; 4.3 Exponential service times; 4.4 Effect of delays on headway of signalled systems; 4.5 Statistical aspects of car-following behaviour; 4.6 Traffic waves;
• Chapter 5. Computer Aids to Operation-Traffic Surveillance and Control; 5.1 Application of digital computers; 5.2 Continuous progress control (C.P.C.), Dynamic programming; 5.3 Optimum train sequence; 5.4 Traffic surveillance and control; 5.5 Control of cascaded vehicles; 5.6 System flow charts; 5.7 Train describers.

• Chapter 6. Measurement of Power-Analogue Computing6.1 Mechanical manipulation of data; 6.2 Equivalent mechanical and electrical quantities; 6.3 Potential and flow; 6.4 Operational amplifiers; 6.5 Vehicle suspension analogy; 6.6 Application to strings of vehicles; 6.7 Hybrid computers; 6.8 Simulation of service environment;
• Chapter 7. Vehicle Detection; 7.1 Presence detectors; 7.2 Track circuits; 7.3 Jointless track circuits; 7.4 Guided radar;
• Chapter 8. Vehicle Identification; 8.1 The ""Identra"" system; 8.2 Bus electronic scanning indicator; 8.3 Automatic wagon-recording system.

• Chapter 9. Communication of Control Signals to Moving Vehicles9.1 Automatic warning systems-cab signalling; 9.2 The ""Indusi"" system; 9.3 The ""Signum"" system; 9.4 Beacon devices; 9.5 Coded track circuit; 9.6 Professor Poupé's system of coded track circuits; 9.7 Use of continuous conductors in the track; 9.8 Combination of magnetic and inductive loop systems;
• Chapter 10. Interlocking-Sequence Control; 10.1 Mechanical interlocking; 10.2 Boolean algebra;
• Chapter 11. Sorting and Marshalling; 11.1 The hump yard; 11.2 Automatic retarders; 11.3 Dowty retarders.

• Chapter 12. Control of Acceleration and Power12.1 Limitations; 12.2 Equations of motion; 12.3 Values of resistance coefficient; 12.4 Estimation of distance-time relationships; 12.5 Coasting; 12.6 Control of engine speed; 12.7 Automatic transmissions; 12.8 Control of electric motive power; 12.9 Use of transductors in power control; 12.10 Application of induction motors; 12.11 Wheel-slip control; 12.12 Control of diesel power; 12.13 Adaptive control; 12.14 Shock factors in acceleration;
• Chapter 13. Control of Braking; 13.1 Forms of braking; 13.2 Physiological aspects.

Automation and Control in Transport reviews the significant advances in transport automation and control. All the present and future foreseeable modes of transport, particularly railways, are treated mathematically. Topics range from dynamic systems to route capacity, vehicle spacing, traffic congestion and regulation, and traffic surveillance and control. Vehicle detection and identification, sorting and marshalling, control of acceleration and power, steering, and control of braking are also given consideration. This volume consists of 16 chapters and begins with a discussion of the dynamic.

• Chapter 1: Telegraphs, track circuits and signals before 1890
• Chapter 2: Electric railways and American practice
• Chapter 3: The electrification of street railways
• Chapter 4: Heilmann, Ward Leonard and the electric railway
• Chapter 5: Electrification of British rapid-transit lines
• Chapter 6: Electrification 1900-20
• Chapter 7: Track circuits, describers and electrical signalling 1890-1920
• Chapter 8: Evolution of the electric railway 1920-40
• Chapter 9: Railway electrification and the thermal-electric locomotive
• Chapter 10: Converters, the mercury-arc rectifier and supply to electric railways
• Chapter 11: Signalling, communications and control 1920-40
• Chapter 12: Railway electrification 1920-40
• Chapter 13: Electro-Motive, General Motors and oil-electric traction
• Chapter 14: The mercury-arc rectifier locomotive
• Chapter 15: Railway electrification in Britain 1920-60
• Chapter 16: Signalling, communications and control 1940-70
• Chapter 17: Main line direct current traction in Britain
• Chapter 18: Main line alternating current traction in Britain
• Chapter 19: Solid-state electronics, motor control and the locomotive
• Chapter 20: Solid-state electronics in signalling, communications and control
• Chapter 21: The electric railway 1965-95.
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Electric Railways 1880-1990 explores the history of the integration of both electric and diesel-electric railway systems and identifies the crucial role that diesel-electric traction played in the development of wireless electrification. The evolution of electrical technology and the modern railway produced innovations in engineering that were integral to the development of traction, power and signalling systems. This book presents a thorough survey of electric railway development from the earliest days pf the London Underground to modern electrified main line trains. The distinction between 'enforced electrification' and 'economic electrification' is also discussed and the pioneering role of J.J. Heilmann assessed. Developed from many years of research into railway engineering, topics covered include signalling and communications, power supplies, and a detailed survey of traction systems, both AC and DC. The introduction first of mercury arc rectifiers, and later of power semiconductor controls, is also discussed in detail. The author has a long-standing interest in engineering history and has written many papers on aspects of railway technology. This book will be of particular interest to scientists and historians interested in the development of electric railways.
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• 1. Technological Nationalism: The Backdrop
• 2. The Guarantee Act: Signpost for an Era
• 3. Nova Scotia: Railways and the New Economy
• 4. The Grand Trunk Railway: The New Imperialism
• 5. Saint John: Fulcrum Metropol
• 6. The Pacific Scandal: Nationalism and Business
• 7. The National Policy: Defining a Nation
• 8. The Philosophy of Railways: Conclusions and Conjectures.

When, in the late 1980s, the federal government initiated a plan to deregulate the Canadian railway system, lobby groups protested the betrayal of a national mandate. They asserted that the railway was founded to promote a sense of national identity, to provide access to isolated regions of the country, and to ensure a transnational exchange of goods and ideas. In The Philosophy of Railways, A.A. den Otter considers the relationship between nationalism and technology, and shows how the popular rhetoric surrounding the evolution of the Canadian Pacific Railway has mythologized the role of a private corporation and its technology. He questions the notion that the railways were built as an antidote to American manifest destiny, suggesting instead that the widespread adoption of railway transportation as a civilizing mission impelled Canadians to bow to technology's integrating effects, including confederation and closer ties with the United States. The study begins by looking at the intellectual climate that spawned the Canadian railway idea, revealing that this idea was strongly influenced by a combination of British and American liberalism, a philosophy that saw technology as the means to destroy trade barriers. In fact, during the mid-nineteenth century, Canadians preferred to build transportation links to the American seaboard rather than to Saint John or Halifax, and this created a deep-seated alienation in the country's peripheral regions. Not only does den Otter include the Maritimes in his analysis, but he employs a careful reading of national documents including assembly debates, the private correspondence of major political figures, and newspaper commentary to contextualize the public debate. By investigating the complex and ambiguous process by which the Canadian railway system both consolidated national identity and facilitated continental integration, The Philosophy of Railways establishes that isolationism, until relatively recently, was not the unilateral stance of those committed to the growth of the railway.
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• Foreword
• Introduction
• Time tunnel
• Whistle post one. Routes and rails
• Whistle post two. Desperation and disasters
• Whistle post three. Working on the railroad
• Whistle post four. Trackside bedtime stories
• Whistle post five. Riding the rides into the future
• Afterword
• Western Canada raid experiences.

Everybody has a train story. Whether it comes from a distant relative who worked on the railways or from a family train trip that formed a lasting impression of the Canadian landscape, trains inspire a sense of wonder and nostalgia. They are embedded in the history of Canada as a whole and western Canada in particular, and for generations they were how most people travelled and saw the country. Today, trains get the most attention in the context of tragedy, in the aftermath of rare but catastrophic derailments. However, train stories go beyond these modern-day disaster tales or romantic glimpses into the past. Whistle Posts West presents a compelling array of stories that illustrate how and why the railways continue to capture our imaginations. From the heartbreaking to the humorous, from the awe-inspiring to the absurd, this fascinating collection of railway tales from BC and Alberta is sure to please.