hw621
Senior Member
With a few power outage along the subway today, it is interesting that GO trains are more reliable partly because they are on diesel...
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Probably yes but I thought electrified rail vould have backup power station similarly to finch west LRT or eglinton LRT don't remember which one , but read somewhere ethereal will be backup power substation which is battery based .With a few power outage along the subway today, it is interesting that GO trains are more reliable partly because they are on diesel...
Why don't subways have backup power?Probably yes but I thought electrified rail vould have backup power station similarly to finch west LRT or eglinton LRT don't remember which one , but read somewhere ethereal will be backup power substation which is battery based .
Why don't subways have backup power?
Or just maybe a few ten million for the the whole system if you only put few trains in crawl motion at a time. Fundamentally, it's just total wattage. Run fewer trains in crawl, just to get all of them to stations, so people are never stuck in tunnels in a power blackout. It would take coordination so not all trains are simultaneously moved, but that might be an easy add-on for the new CBTC signal system.Funding and timing mostly.
Large battery banks wasn't something that was commonly done (other than for telco's) until recently. Given the cost of the backup plant for Eglinton, TTC would require about $1B for a project like that BUT you could cover a small section (like south of Bloor only) for much less.
Or just maybe a few ten million for the the whole system if you only put few trains in crawl motion at a time. Fundamentally, it's just total wattage. Run fewer trains in crawl, just to get all of them to stations, so people are never stuck in tunnels in a power blackout. It would take coordination so not all trains are simultaneously moved, but that might be an easy add-on for the new CBTC signal system.
I thought T1 trains already have onboard battery for crawling them into the next station; so I assumed the idea was to sustain normal operations during Toronto Hydro feed problems.
On the other hand, depending on the refuelling method, it could bring new challenges in inclement weather...Certainly one of the benefits of Hydrail is that, like diesel, it is not at the whim over an external power supply giving it greater reliability in inclement weather.
If I am correct, at maximum efficiency, hydrail is about 30-50% efficient (quoted from earlier in this thread). Compare this to the 70-90% efficiency from a pantograph. Peak electricity costs are 13 cents, and off-peak electricity costs are 6.5 cents; half the cost. Hydrail is half as efficient as direct pantograph collection, so twice as much electricity is required to get the same amount of work through hydrogen as you would through pantograph collection.
Really? As far as I understand it, the specs on the 1960s and 1970s Montreal rolling stock required enough power to make it to the next station.The onboard batteries on the trains are only to power emergency lighting, PA systems and other safety systems.
Really? As far as I understand it, the specs on the 1960s and 1970s Montreal rolling stock required enough power to make it to the next station.
I'm surprised Toronto hasn't done this 50 years later ... maybe batteries are larger than they were in the 1960s ... inflation