Re: Push-pull

[chris@transdata.co.nz ("chris 'fufas' grace")]

David Bromage wrote in message <6ouq7q$973$5@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>Tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au) wrote:
>
>> David Bromage wrote in message <6ouo5f$973$2@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>> >Tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au) wrote:
>> >> Some ballast/spoil/work trains in Sydney. The wheat trippy sometimes.
>> >
>> >Is that technically push-pull? My understanding of the term is that you
>> >power from both ends at once, controlled by one driver. Otherwise you're
>> >just banking.
>
>> That's how it's always referred to, even in Safeworking manuals.
>
>Which doesn't really mean anything. :)


This does:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8788/pu-pl.html

(This is Piers Connor's web page. For those of you who don't know Piers, he
is the author of a number of excellent books about the London Underground
and has started a railway technical web page which I urge you to support, as
it appears to be the only repository of this sort of information)