The Contact Wire Thickness-measuring System (ATON) of the Netherlands Railways
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An advanced system has been developed for inspection of the degree of wear of the contact wires for the Netherlands Railways. With the help of this inspection system, which has been given the acronym ATON (=Automatic Thickness measurement Contact Wires Netherlands railways), the worn reflective underside of the contact wires illuminate and the reflected radiation is detected with fast linear CCD detectors. ATON is mounted on an inspection coach and is fully operational now. During a measurement campaign in about 4 weeks more than 4000 km contact wires have been inspected. In this article the system is described in some detail and first measurement results are presented.
TNO Identifier
282192
Source
Rail International(April), pp. 20-31.
Collation
12 p.
Pages
20-31
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