WHEEL FLANGE LUBRICATION

The Eastern Region of British Railways are evaluating, on the tortuous 10 mile route between Liverpool Street and Chingford, methods of reducing flange wear on the wheels of multiple unit passenger trains. Among the greasing systems being studied is the Enots‐Vogel equipment designed for greasing both inner and outer faces of wheel flanges and supplied by Enots Ltd., Aston Brook Street, Birmingham 6. Equipment of this type has been in use on European railways for some time but only for the treatment of the outer faces of wheel flanges (this is because of a basic difference in railroad design practised there—in Europe check rails are, in general, only installed as parts of points, but in Britain they are often laid on curves so that check rail mileage often represents a significant proportion of total track mileage).