Re: High-voltage track circuits

["Rob" <robd74@hotmail.com>]

In South Australia, on the Steam Ranger Tourist Rail (Mount Barker to Victor
Harbour) we use Lucas Girling Track circuits, which apply a 50 to 100 volt
pulse on the rail, for rust purposes as the line is not used often enough to
create a good circuit between train and rail.

Regards

Rob

Ronald BESDANSKY wrote in message ...
>An experiment was carried out about 30 years ago on the NSW National Park
>line, using short pulses of about 100 volts instead of continuous DC or
>low-frequency AC to feed track circuits. Does anybody remember this
>experiment, and was it successful?
>
>Rgds
>
>Ron BESDANSKY
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