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; where possible they 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 EE-AEI Traction, GEC Traction and GEC Transportation Projects are grouped together.
| Document Description/Title | Link | Classes |
| Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) | ||
| 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 |
| D0260 Lion 2750 HP Diesel Locomotive (1962) | |
D0260 |
| ALCO | ||
| Note: the following ALCO documents were bound into a single pack. No dates are given but likely to be from 1964. | ||
| ALCO Locomotives for the Railways of the World | |
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| ALCO DL-531 1065 / 965 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-535-B DL-535-S 1370 / 1215 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-535 1370 / 1215 CV DL-534 1065 / 965 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-536 1370 / 1215 CV DL-532 1065 / 965 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-543 2180 / 2030 CV DL-541 1980 / 1825 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-500-S 2180 / 2030 CV DL-500-C 1980 / 1830 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-560 2635 / 2430 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-721A 2150 / 2000 HP Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-640A 2600 / 2400 HP Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-628 3050 / 2750 HP Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DH-643 4300 / 4000 CV Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive | |
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| ALCO DL-855 6100 / 5500 CV Diesel-Electric Locomotive | |
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| Plymouth hauling and switching Locomotives distributed by ALCO | |
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| 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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| Class 50 EE Service Performance Measurements (1970) | |
50 |
| 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] |
| British Thomson-Houston | ||
| Magnetic Amplifiers | |
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| English Electric | ||
| 3000 V Bo-Bo locomotive for Poland (1962) | |
[EU06] |
| English Electric Main-line Diesel Electric Locomotives (1951) | |
10000/1 |
| Tests on a transductor-controlled locomotive (1963) | |
AL3/83 |
| 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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| EE-AEI Traction, 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 |
| 1350 hp Diesel Electric Locomotives for Portugal Class 1400 | |
[1400] |
| 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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| 1760 HP Co-Co Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Malayan Railways (1971) | |
[22] |
| 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 37 and Class 55 Locomotives (1961) | |
37/55 |
| 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 Diesel Electric Locomotives and Multiple Units List of Sales (August 1974) | |
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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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| Report of Investigation into Class 50 Rheostatic Brake Problems | |
50 |
| 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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| General Electric (USA) | ||
| 65-ton Diesel-Electric locomotive for Industrial Switching | |
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| General Motors | ||
| G-26C 2200 / 2000 hp 6-motor, 6-axle diesel electric general purpose locomotive for overseas service | |
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| GT-22C 2475 / 2250 hp 6-motor, 6-axle diesel electric general purpose locomotive for overseas service | |
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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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