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Rail fastening system
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History of the railway track
For the connection bar used in railways, see Fishplate. A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the fourth century BC. Although invented in fifth-century BC Athens, most of the corpus of surviving painted fish plates originate in Southern Italy, where fourth-century BC Greek settlers, called " Italiotes ...
Track ballast supports railway sleepers, which carry railway track. Track ballast is the material which forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (UK: sleepers) are laid. It is packed between, below, and around the ties. [1] It is used to bear the compression load of the railroad ties, rails, and rolling stock; to facilitate drainage; and ...