Is that to minimise skin loss in steel track ?

UK Third rail is, of course, DC, and I once spent an idle moment calculating the loss if 50Hz AC were to be used with magnetic iron conductors.  I think I came to the conclusion a 1MW train could probably travel a few hundred metres before it lost its power supply.

andy  G4JNT

On 17 March 2016 at 13:21, Johan Bodin <[email protected]> wrote:

Railway QRG is 16 2/3 Hz in Sweden too.

73 de Johan SM6LKM

John Rabson wrote:

I seem to recall that some railway systems use at about 16 2/3 Hz (one third of 50 Hz) for traction.

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Can someone say whether my recollections are correct, please?

73 John F5VLF