• DocumentCode
    911979
  • Title

    Docklands light railway

  • Author

    Kemp, R.J.

  • Author_Institution
    GEC Transportation Projects Ltd., Manchester, UK
  • Volume
    134
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    5/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    127
  • Lastpage
    133
  • Abstract
    The Docklands Light Railway is a fully automatic light rail system that has recently been commissioned in the London Docklands Development Area in East London, UK. This paper describes the electrical and mechanical systems of the railway.
  • Keywords
    centralised control; microcomputer applications; railways; transport computer control; City of London; DLR; Docklands Development Area; Docklands Light Railway; articulated vehicles; central computer system; fully automatic electrically powered light railway; monitoring; on-board microprocessors; railway control; regulation; stored route data;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electric Power Applications, IEE Proceedings B
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0143-7038
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/ip-b:19870019
  • Filename
    4644335
    • Link To Document
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