Technical Documents Archive
This is an archive for a variety of railway vehicle technical documents; most contain descriptions of the installed equipment. Almost all have all been scanned as PDF files from paper original documents; most have been converted to be text-searchable. Click on the link to open the document. Thanks to several friends and former colleagues for obtaining these documents and scanning them, particularly R.B.
All are the copyright of the relevant companies as displayed on each document.
The documents are grouped by the company that created the original documents; most of these are railway equipment manufacturers. For simplicity, documents from GEC Traction and GEC Transportation Projects are grouped together.
| Document Description/Title | Link | Classes |
| Associated Electrical Industries | ||
| AC Type 'A' Electric Locomotives for British Railways, Nos. E 3001 - E 3023 (1961) |  |
AL1/81 |
| AC Type 'A' Locomotives for British Railways Nos. E 3046 - E 3055 (1960) | |
AL2/82 |
| High-Voltage AC Locomotives built by British Railways (1961) | |
AL5/85 |
| High-Voltage Multiple Unit Stock for British Railways (1960) | |
AM4/304 |
| An Experimental Automatic Electric Brake Scheme For 25 kV a.c. locomotives (1968) | |
AL5/85 |
| Alstom | ||
| A High-Speed Solution for the UK's West Coast Main Line (2005) | |
390 |
| Class 323 - Case study - English (2016) | |
323 |
| Lirex | |
[618/619] |
| London - Juniper Gatwick Express EMUs - ONIX 800 (1998) | |
460 |
| London Underground - Northern Line - ONIX 800 (1998) | |
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| New York City Transit - R34142 - ONIX 800 (1998) | |
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| Portugal TAGE EMUs ONIX 1500 (1998) | |
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| Shanghai - Metropolis Metro ONIX 1500 (1999) | |
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| Singapore North-East Line (2003) | |
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| Singapore's Circle Line (2005) | |
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| Sweden Arlanda EMUs ONIX 1500 (1998) | |
[Arlanda] |
| The Arlanda Express Rail Link (1999) | |
[Arlanda] |
| British Railways | ||
| British Railways Electrification Conference - Exhibition at Battersea - October 1960 | |
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| British Rail Engineering Ltd | ||
| Class 90 Electric Locomotive | |
90 |
| Class 91 Electric Locomotive | |
91 |
| Thameslink | |
319 |
| Brown Boveri | ||
| Asynchronous Motor Drive for Diesel Locomotives (Henschel-BBC-DE 2500) pages 1-14 | |
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| Asynchronous Motor Drive for Diesel Locomotives (Henschel-BBC-DE 2500) pages 15-52 | |
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| E120 Locomotive Technical Data (In German) | |
[120] |
| Electrical Equipment for the three-phase DB Class E 120 Universal Mainline Locomotive | |
[120] |
| English Electric | ||
| 3000 V Bo-Bo locomotive for Poland (1962) | |
[EU06] |
| English Electric Main-line Diesel Electric Locomotives (1951) | |
10000/1 |
| GEC ALSTHOM | ||
| Ankara Rapid Transit Project - Phase 1 | |
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| British Rail Class 91 Locomotives | |
91 |
| Class 465 & 466 Electric Multiple Units for British Rail Network SouthEast | |
465/466 |
| Class 9E 50 kV Thyristor Controlled Heavy Freight Locomotives | |
[9E] |
| Classes 465 and 466 Networker EMU trains for British Rail | |
465/466 |
| Manchester Metrolink (1992) | |
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| Mark IV Coaches for British Rail Intercity | |
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| The Efficient Drive - Fleet Conversion to Chopper Control (1994) | |
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| Vehicles for the Mass Transit Railway Corporation Hong Kong | |
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| GEC Traction and GEC Transportation Projects | ||
| 1Bo-Bo1 Diesel Electric Locomotive for East Africa (1968) | |
[91] |
| 1000 hp Diesel Electric Locomotives for British Rail - Class 20 (1957, with later amendments) | |
20 |
| 1500 V Choppers with Rheostatic Braking for Netherland Railways | |
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| 1500 V Twin-car Articulated LRT Trainsets for Tyne & Wear Metro (1974) | |
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| 25 kV & 6.25 kV 50 Hz Express Multiple Unit Trains BR Class 312 (1976) | |
312 |
| 25 kV 60 Hz Light Weight Thyristor Locomotives for Taiwan (1977) | |
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| 25 kV ac Electric Locomotives British Rail Class 87 (1973) | |
87 |
| 2700 hp Diesel Electrics for British Rail Class 50 (1968) | |
50 |
| A Regenerative Braking System for dc Railway Traction (1979) | |
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| Class 91 25 kV BoBo Locomotives for British Rail 240 kph 4530 kW | |
91 |
| Design Considerations for Rapid Transit (1974) | |
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| Diesel Electric Multiple Units for Northern Ireland Railways (1974) | |
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| Dual-voltage Chopper-Controlled Mining Locomotives | |
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| Dublin Suburban Electrification Scheme - Power Equipment for Electric Multiple Unit Trains | |
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| Electrical Multiple Units for South Africa (1974) | |
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| Electro Diesel Locomotives (1967) | |
73 |
| Electronically Controlled 3000 V Heavy Freight Locomotives Class 10E1 | |
[10E1] |
| Equipment for Copenhagen S Trains (1973) | |
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| Equipment for Glasgow Underground | |
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| Equipment for High Performance ac and dc EMU trains | |
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| Express Electric Trains BR SR Bournemouth Brighton Kent Coast Portsmouth | |
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| GEC in Transportation | |
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| GEC Traction & Signal forms the 'South African Traction Manufacturers' (1984) | |
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| GEC Traction Development Facilities Leaflet | |
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| GEC Traction Electric Locomotives and Multiple Units List of Sales (May 1982) | |
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| GEC Traction in Hong Kong | |
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| GEC Traction Ltd Class 6E & 6E1 Locomotive (1973) | |
6E/6E1 |
| GEC Traction Propulsion Equipment for Hong Kong Metro (1976) | |
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| GEC Tyne & Wear Brochure (1974) | |
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| Inertia Simulation on Traction Combined Test | |
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| Light Rail from GEC Leaflet | |
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| Luxury Express Electric Trainsets for Taiwan (1977) | |
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| Managing Electra (1988) | |
91 |
| Power Converters for feeding Asychronous Traction Motors (1982) | |
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| Propulsion Equipment for EMU Trains for New Zealand Railways | |
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| Recent Advances in the Application of GTO Thyristors in Rapid Transit Vehicles (1988) | |
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| Thames Link Dual voltage suburban multiple-unit trains with GTO-microprocessor control Class 319 | |
319 |
| The Docklands Light Railway | |
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| The Manufacture of Gearwheels and Pinions | |
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| The Present Status of Chopper Control Technology (1982) | |
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| Thyristor Controlled 25 kV Locomotive British Rail Class 87/1 (1975) | |
87/1 |
| Thyristor Controlled Electric Locomotives for 25 kV in Pakistan (1968) | |
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| Vehicles for London Transport's Deep Tube Lines equipped by GEC Traction (1976) | |
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| Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive | ||
| Light Rapid Transit in Greater Manchester | |
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| Institution of Mechanical Engineers | ||
| Development and Structural Testing of the Class 87 Locomotive Bogie Frame (1975) | |
87 |
| High Speed Train - Fleet Operation (1978) | |
HST |
| The Advanced Passenger Train (1976) | |
370 |
| The Development of the Prototype Advanced Passenger Train (1982) | |
370 |
| Metrolink | ||
| Metrolink Topic Sheet - Vehicles (1990) | |
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| Modern Railways | ||
| London Underground 1986 Tube Stock (1987) | |
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| Ministry of Transport | ||
| Second interim report on the Accidents and Failures which occurred in Multiple Unit Electric Trains in the Scottish Region and Eastern Region British Railways (1961) | |
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| Other Technical Papers | ||
| An Electronic Freight Locomotive (Class 10E1) | |
[10E1] |
| Suburban Rail Transport (1984) | |
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| Union Carriage and Wagon | ||
| The UCW Partnership | |
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