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Nos. 7 to 12 KARL FREDRIK WINCRANTZ. Managing Director of ...

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The Hallsberg Electric Interlocking Signal Plant.By Herman Holmqvist, Signed Engineer.Progress in the field <strong>of</strong> electric interlockingsignalling deviees has heen rapid in recentyears, and the system applied in the Malmo plant(1925) led <strong>to</strong> further improvements. The firststep was the Hasselhohn interlocking plant ( 1926),where the mechanical locking system was whollydiscarded, and the levers only connected electrically.As this plant has now heen in use for sometrafficked junction. The plans were therefore revised,and the result may be said <strong>to</strong> be a compromisebetween the old system and the new whichis <strong>of</strong> great interest and has worked well in practice.The Hallsberg railway station is a junction <strong>of</strong>two important railway lines, the electrified S<strong>to</strong>ckholm—Gothenburgline and the steam Krylbo—Mjolby line, which latter has double tracks fromFig. 1.years, and has proved perfectly satisfac<strong>to</strong>ry fromthe point <strong>of</strong> view <strong>of</strong> security and reliability, thetime has been considered ripe <strong>to</strong> apply the system<strong>to</strong> other large installations planned, primarilythen at Lund, Gothenburg, and S<strong>to</strong>ckholm C. Inthe mean time, however, plans for another largeplant, Hallsberg, had been completed in the beginning<strong>of</strong> 192.S, with the intention <strong>of</strong> using theelder mechanical locking devices, i. e. allowingonly two train routes <strong>to</strong> he laid by each lever.But the advantages <strong>of</strong> the Malum system, permittingtrains from any <strong>of</strong> the lines <strong>to</strong> enter or leaveall tracks, were considered desirable at this heavilyOrebro <strong>to</strong> Hallsberg. On account <strong>of</strong> the <strong>to</strong>pographicalconditions the Krylbo—Mjolhy line is nota through line, but the tracks from Kuinla andfrom Asbro both enter at the east end <strong>of</strong> thestation yard. This implies a change round or exchange<strong>of</strong> the engines <strong>of</strong> all the trains at Hallsberg.and the Palsboda track must necessarilybe crossed either coining in or going out. Inaddition there are through carriages <strong>to</strong> and fromOrebro in a majority <strong>of</strong> the trains on the S<strong>to</strong>ckholmGothenburg line, involving a hurried shunting<strong>of</strong> passenger coaches from one train <strong>to</strong> another.Train traffic goes on all day and night.1 105

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