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  1. Aug 5, 2022, 11:27 AM #1
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    Railway hydraulic retarders - GIF

    Railway hydraulic retarders.




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    I wouldn't have expected that those retarder would make much difference to the speed of a train weighing several thousand tonnes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bony View Post
    I wouldn't have expected that those retarder would make much difference to the speed of a train weighing several thousand tonnes.
    Probably not on a train under power, but if enough of them are mounted throughout a railway switching yard they would slow or deter roll offs from missed couplings
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    Although it is not intuitional , there is a smallll amount of kinetic energy displaced with each action, but it must take a lot of them to reduce speed measurably.



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