Exam 4: Railway Track Design and Construction

The gradient on which an additional engine is required to negotiate the gradient, is called

Sleeper density in India is normally kept as

The limiting value of cant gradient for all gauges is

Top surface of steel sleepers, is

For metal sleepers with rounded edges, maximum size of ballast, is

Coning of wheels

Anti-creep anchors are fixed to rails by

Charles Blacker Vignoles invented the flat footed rails in

Safe speed (V) on a curve of radius 970 metres provided with two transition curves on Board Gauge track, is

According to Indian Railway Board, no diamond crossing should be flatter than

If G is gauge distance and a is crossing, the distance between the nose of acute crossing and nose of obtuse crossing of a rail diamond, measured along the rail not forming the diamond, is

Indian Railways detects the rail flow by

By interchanging gibs and cotters of a pot sleeper, gauge may be slackened by

Burnettising is done for the preservation of

The life of a wooden sleeper depends upon

If D gle of crossing, the distance between the noses of crossing measured parallel to the main track, is

Track construction involves preparation of

Composite sleeper index determines

Standard size of wooden sleeper for Broad Gauge track is

Head width of 52 kg rail section is