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  2. Railroad tie - Wikipedia

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    A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...

  3. Trondheim Tramway controversy - Wikipedia

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    5.1 Sale of trams? 5.2 More reports. 5.3 Closure. ... Line employees would be reduced from 27 to 5–6 after the upgrade to concrete sleepers was finished on the ...

  4. Ballastless track - Wikipedia

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    Slab track with flexible noise-reducing rail fixings, built by German company Max Bögl, on the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line. A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of sleepers and ballast is replaced by a rigid construction of concrete or asphalt.

  5. Rail fastening system - Wikipedia

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    Spring spikes or elastic rail spikes [25] are used with flat-bottomed rail, baseplates and wooden sleepers. The spring spike holds the rail down and prevents tipping and also secures the baseplate to the sleeper. [26] The Macbeth spike (trade name) is a two-pronged U-shaped staple-like spike bent so that it appears M-shaped when viewed from the ...

  6. Rail profile - Wikipedia

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    In the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway the rail is a 350 mm (14 in) thick concrete beam with a 180 mm (7.1 in) lip to form the flange. The buses run on normal road wheels with side-mounted guidewheels to run against the flanges.

  7. Victorian Railways sleeping cars - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, the two cars were returned to broad gauge, and took on the numbers No. 15 Sleeper (ex 1VAC) and No. 16 Sleeper (ex 2VAC) following on from Sleepers 1 to 10 (ex E type carriages) and Sleepers 11 to 14 (ex V&SAR Overland Carriages), for operation on The Vinelander service to Mildura. By 1982 they had been internally refitted as full ...

  8. Victorian Railways departmental wagons - Wikipedia

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    Between 1987 and 1989, twenty former boxvans were cut down and recycled as sleeper-carrying wagons, both the normal type and longer sleepers ("timbers") for junction work. They were built with three trays, so one stack of sleepers could be held at the handbrake end, and two stacks at the other end. [35]

  9. VolkerRail - Wikipedia

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    The 1940s 75 lb flatbottom rail placed on light weight concrete sleepers would be taken out and replaced with 1st generation steel sleepers bedded in ash ballast. The project took place in Bicester MoDs’ Barracks, which operates a non-explosive military storage and distribution hub.