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Channel Tunnel Trains by Peter Semmens & Yves Machefert-Tassin Hard cover w/DJ
Channel Tunnel Trains by Peter Semmens & Yves Machefert-Tassin
Channel Tunnel Rolling Stock & the Eurotunnel System
160 Pages
Copyright 1994
Hard Cover W/Dust Jacket (shows weat / tears)
Table of Contents
ForewordAlain Bertrand, Chief Operating Officer, Eurotunnel7
Introduction The Eurotunnel System8
Part OneRolling Stock Design and Equipment12
Chapter 1 Shuttle Locomotives13
Chapter 2 Passenger-Vehicle Shuttle Wagons44
Chapter 3 Freight Shuttle Wagons67
Chapter 4 Servicing and Maintenance81
Chapter 5 Maintenance Locomotives and Trains87
Chapter 6 Service Tunnel Transport System98
Chapter 7 Passenger and Freight Through-Trains103
Part TWO Tunnel Infrastructure 111
Chapter 8 Tunnels112
Chapter 9 Fixed Equipment117
Chapter 10 Track123
Chapter 11Signalling128
Chapter 12 The Electrical System133
Chapter 13 Controls and Communication141
Technical Appendixes147
Acknowledgements and Further Reading155
Index157
The Channel Tunnel shuttles are the world's largest trains. Almost 800m long, 2600 tonnes in weight, they traverse the Channel at speeds of up to 140 km/h, 24 hours a day, 52 weeks a year.
This unique book is the official record of all the dedicated Tunnel rolling stock. Expert railway writers Peter Semmens and Yves Machefert-Tassin provide a fascinating insight into the specification, design, equipment and operation of the shuttle locomotives and their remarkable wagons, specially designed to carry freight and passenger vehicles between Britain and France.
The international through-services operated via the Tunnel are also fully described.
Additional chapters deal with the infrastructure of the Tunnel itself (the world's longest undersea tunnel), together with the sophisticated Equipment it contains: track, drainage, ventilation, electric traction supply. The signalling and communications systems and stock servicing and maintenance are also described.
Supported by numerous specially commissioned photographs, drawings, plans and diagrams, this book reveals the astonishing complexity of the arming and operation of the Channel Tunnel.
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