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MODERN AIDS IN THE DESIGN OF RAILWAY BOGIES By A. W. Manser, B.Sc. (Eng.) (Member) The paper illustrates work carried out on motored and non-motored underground train bogies and the experiments carried out in the use of light-alloy bogies and vehicles. INTRODUCTION SMALL though the London underground system may appear in comparison with main line railways, the intensity of the service run and the physical characteristics of the system impose exceptionally severe conditions on many of the rolling stock components. This is particularly true of the bogies, where the high rate of acceleration and braking, frequent incidence of stopping, severity and number of curves, together with the unusually high load/tare ratio, combine to produce as exacting a problem as may be found in the railway world, apart from the further almost unique disadvantage-in the case of the Tube lines, where the tunnel diameter is only about 12 ft-of a critical space limitation. Of the two types of bogie, motored and non-motored, the former obviously presents by far the more difficult problem in design, and with the continuing trend toward higher rates of acceleration, the motored bogie has become the more numerous. This paper, therefore, deals primarily with the motored bogie, although many of the conclusions apply also to the non-motored bogie. HISTORY OF BOGIE EXPERIENCE The history of bogie experience on the London Transport system may be summarized by saying that, until recent times, only those bogies of exceptionally robust (and therefore heavy) construction had a record reasonably free from trouble in respect of main structural defects. Even in some of the heavier designs, freedom from structural troubles was achieved only after extensive and costly modification of what had started as basically a main line design of proven reliability. On a system where, by reason of station spacing, quite apart from signal checks, the requirement is to stop every two-thirds of a mile on average, there can