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The performance and control requirements of a REPOINT track switch

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posted on 2015-05-07, 15:06 authored by Nick Wright, Sam Bemment, Christopher Ward, Roger Dixon, Roger Goodall
This paper concerns the high-level mechanical, electrical, and control requirements for the proposed novel design of a railway track switch. The track switch is being designed as part of the Repoint project, with the aim of investigating methods of increasing railway capacity and improving network delay performance through the application of technologies common to other industries. The basic mechanical design of the novel switch is discussed. The mechanical considerations are discussed in the context of the electrical and control system requirements, which are then investigated and justified. For the electrical and control design, the requirements focus on the functional performance, sustainability, fault tolerance and fault diagnostics. The requirements presented in this paper are being used to inform the design of a laboratory scale technology demonstrator, which will be completed by August 2014.

Funding

The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support provided by the United Kingdom EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and the UK Railway Safety and Standards Board RSSB in grant number EP/I010823/1, for the project titled ‘REPOINT: Redundantly engineered points for enhanced reliability and capacity of railway track switching’. The authors also wish to acknowledge the support of the UK’s EIT (Enabling Innovation Team), for providing follow-on research funding towards concept demonstrator construction (http://www.futurerailway.org/). The authors wish to thank Tracsis PLC for ongoing industrial support and guidance.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Railways 2014: The Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance

Citation

WRIGHT, N. ... et al., 2014. The performance and control requirements of a REPOINT track switch. IN: Pombo, J. (ed.) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 215. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.215

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© Civil-Comp Limited

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

The final published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4203/ccp.104.215

ISSN

1759-3433

Language

  • en

Location

Ajaccio, Corsica, France

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