Framed cutway drawing

Hikari Express

by Leslie Ashwell Wood, c1969

The text which accompanies this drawing reads:- 

FASTEST TRAINS IN THE WORLD

ONCE every hour of the day a blue and ivory "bullet" streaks along the tracks of Japan's New Tokaido Line at 130 miles an hour. It does the 320 mile journey between Tokyo and Osaka in three hours. The Hikari Express, shown opposite emerging from the Bentanyama tunnel near Kozu, has no locomotive. Instead of which, powerful electric motors, totalling 8,000 h.p. are mounted on the axles of all the carriages. They take current at 25,000 volts from an overhead wire supported by pylons along the track. The driver's cab above the bullet-nose contains the brake and speed controls and a maze of electronic circuits. Throughout the hundreds of miles of specially laid track, the train's speed is regulated by an automatic electronic system controlled at Tokyo station.

KEY TO NUMBERED PARTS (1) Driver's cab, the only time the driver uses the controls is when the train is starting or coming to a slow halt. (2) Electronic cabinet and circuits. (3) Between the rails and every concrete sleeper there is a rub- ber cushion. (4) Leading wheels and electric propulsion motors. (5) Entire track is built on concrete pylons. (6) Electric motor drive. (7) Air intakes. (8) Air-conditioning equipment. (9) Suspension wire. (10) Telephone lines. (11) Pantograph picks up current from the contact wire. (12) Contact wire carrying 25,000 volt current. (13) Contact cable suspension. (14) Insulators. (15) Luxury seat ing in air-conditioned coaches. (16) Electric motor drive. Alongside the track is an electric cable.

This lovely illustration comes framed in an A4 (30 x 21 cm, 12 x 8.3 inch) size frame.

The picture offered does NOT have the "SAMPLE" watermark!!