... travelling at 160km/h is accepted as thelimit which gives a vertical loading on the sleepers and ballast of 34 t. Mr Jenkins went on todescribe the effect ofcant, cantdeficiency and rateof change of cant, and drew attention to the fact that track over which the highest speeds are permitted will almost...

...J C LOACH; M G MAYCOCK DEVELOPMENT RAILWAYS CURVES DESIGN EXPERIMENTS DATA TESTS TRAINS LOCOMOTIVES CANT GRADIENTS WAGONS GRAPHS COMPOUND REVERSE TURNOUTS JUNCTIONS LIMITS SPEED RESTRICTIONS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1952 PROCEEDINGS THEINSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS...

... the position fromthe point of view of the civil engineer, with regard both to maintenance and to the question of speed on curves. The problemas it had appeared in 1935, and had been discussed a t very many meetings a t about thattime, had been that of cant deficiency ; that became the crux of all...