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EIS 94 Engineering Integrity in Rail Transport Sytems 1994 Rolling Stock Leasing - The Technical Challenges

Papers presented at the Engineering Integrity Society’s International Conference on Rail Transport Systems Birmingham, 11th – 12th July 1994

THE CHALLENGES

Rolling Stock Leasing – An Excellent reason for Manufactures to Drive Down Life Cycle Cost Whilst Maintaining High Availability
B. SODERSTEN

Reliability – The Price, The Pain and The Profit
J. D. GADD

An American Lessor’s View of Railway Privatisation
J. C. LANE and J. B. WEST

RELIABILITY FOR PROFIT

Reliability – for Profit
T. MONKHOUSE

Class 92 Locomotive Reliability
R. KEMP

DURABILITY

Relationships Between Vehicles and Track
B. EICKHOFF

Full Scale Fatigue Testing of Rail Vehicles
D. G. CRAWFORD, R.W. DUNLOP, J KERR and N. ROBERTSON

THE UNIVERSITY CONNECTION

Railway Technology Strategy Centre
T.M. RIDLEY and E.T. HAMBLY

The Advanced Railway Research Center
R. A. SMITH and A. P.JABLONSKI

Preception is all there is
P.G. PAGE

The Application of Data Recording to the Maintenance of Railway Equipment and to the Improvement in Reliability
D. J. ABBOTT

Maintaining Integrity – The Contractors Challenge
R. A. W. ELLIOTT

SAFETY

Energy Management in Train Collisions
J. F. CARNEY and S. CHATTERJEE

Network Crashworthiness Development
P. FLINN and D. ROBSON

Crashworthiness – The BR Programme
A.SCHOLES

THE WAY FORWARD

Engineering Challenges in the North American Railroad System
R. A. ALLEN

LATE PAPERS

Global Approach to Whole Train Crashworthiness
B. MARGUET, G. GIELCZYNSKI and E. WEYENBERGH

Standards in the Privatised Railway
J. R. MITCHELL

The Way Forward – A Train Operator’s View
R. W. URIE