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    Slippery rail, or low railhead adhesion, is a condition of railways (railroads) where contamination of the railhead reduces the traction between the wheel...
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  • (locomotive) Slippery rail Tribology "LLOYD RAIL - Improving rail networks world wide". www.lloydrail.ie. "MTA LIRR - Slippery Rail". web.mta.info. "ProRail start...
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  • sequentially.[citation needed] In 2006, Network Rail made public a high-tech plan to combat the effects of slippery rail. This plan involves the use of satellites...
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  • holds sand, which a crew can drop onto the rail to improve rail adhesion under wet, steep, or slippery rail conditions. The sandbox and operating mechanism...
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    trams that holds sand, which is dropped on the rail in front of the driving wheels in wet and slippery conditions and on steep grades to improve traction...
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    of curve Rail lubrication Slant of rail (typically 1 in 20) Superelevation or cant Type of train Weather (rails wet or dry) (slippery rail) Wheelbase...
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  • control systems used on motor vehicles. It is particularly important in slippery rail conditions. Sanding is one method of reducing wheel slip or slide. Locomotives...
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  • locomotives are fitted with electronic wheelspin detectors which automatically reduce the power supplied to the wheels if wheelspin is detected. Slippery rail...
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  • Hillclimbing (railway) (category Rail technologies)
    days of steam with designs that suffered from problems with smoke and slippery rail. The ruling gradient of a section of railway line between two major...
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    steepest gradients on adhesion railways Rail squeal Railway tire Rolling resistance Sandbox (locomotive) Slippery rail Traction Tribology Wheelset Wheelskate...
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