ABSTRACT
This chapter has been designed to provide a hands-on guide to both understanding and analysing longitudinal train dynamics. The chapter is intentionally more general than a previous chapter by the author [1], which concentrates mainly on freight trains, non-linear friction-type draft gears and heavy haul issues. For more details on these issues, the reader is referred to [1]. This chapter provides a step-by-step journey through the modelling process. To provide a more instructive resource, it was decided to add modelling using the popularly available Simulink® package. In this way, those wishing to understand train dynamics more deeply and those who wish to use the book as an instruction resource can work through these models progressively.
