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Construction of Track Unit 2

The construction of a railway track involves three stages: formation and consolidation of the earth, laying of tracks, and ballasting. Formation requires moving earth to create embankments and cuttings, with embankments preferred. Track laying can be done via temporary side tracks, moving materials to extend the track, or using specialized machines. Ballasting completes the work by spreading stone over the tracks.

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Construction of Track Unit 2

The construction of a railway track involves three stages: formation and consolidation of the earth, laying of tracks, and ballasting. Formation requires moving earth to create embankments and cuttings, with embankments preferred. Track laying can be done via temporary side tracks, moving materials to extend the track, or using specialized machines. Ballasting completes the work by spreading stone over the tracks.

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CONSTRUCTION OF

RAILWAY TRACK
▶ THREE STAGES:
▶ 1.First stage-FORMATION AND CONSOLIDATION
▶ 2.Second stage-LAYING OF A RAILWAY TRACK
▶ 3.Third stage-LAYING OF BALLAST ON THE
TRACK
FIRST STAGE---EARTHWORK

▶ Earth work consists of providing formation along ground


surface, in cuttings, up the embankments over bridges or
through tunnels.
▶ Constructions of formation requires EARTHWORK, from
drainage point view, a formation up the embankment is
always preferred level to a formation in cutting. The height
of embankment above highest water level in the area should
be atleast 60cm.
▶ Economical limit of moving the earth in longitudinal
direction is decided by MASS-HAUL CURVE.
▶ The cost of earthwork for the formation varies with three
factors:
▶ The type of soil used
▶ Hauling distance or lead
▶ Lift-required.
▶ The purpose of consolidation is to pack the track so that
larger quantities of stone ballast are not lost by sinking
into loose earth formation.
▶ Consolidation is done by the addition of admixtures and
finally compacting by the embankments by vibratory or
impact methods.
SECOND STAGE---PLATE LAYING.

▶ PLATE LAYING: The operation of laying out the rails and


sleepers over the ready formation.
▶ BASE: The point from where the laying of tracks.
▶ RAIL-HEAD : The point upon which the new track is carried
out.
▶ METHOD OF PLATE LAYING:
▶ TRAMLINE METHOD or SIDE METHOD.
▶ TELESCOPIC METHOD.
▶ AMERICAN METHOD.
TRAMLINE or SIDE METHOD:

▶ It is a temporary tramline is laid by the proposed


track for carrying out the materials. It is known as a
side-method as a new track for tramline is laid by the
side of proposed track.
▶ Side method is suitable for doubling the track
proposed , so laying out of new way track is easy.
▶ In this method, the progress of work is slow , not
more than 1.6km per day.
▶ TELESCOPIC METHOD:
▶ In this method the materials are transported materials
trains to the farthest point of new track and unloaded.
▶ OPERATIONS IN TELESCOPIC METHOD:
▶ Collection and preparation of materials of depot.
▶ Transportation of materials from depot to work site.
▶ Unloading of materials at work site and carrying to the
rail head.
▶ Fixing up of rails to the sleepers and joining the two
rails with fish-plates.
▶ Packing of tracks for correct level and assingnment.
▶ AMERICAN METHODS:
▶ Special track laying machines are used for
plate-laying work.
▶ As this method was first used in AMERICA so it is
called by AMERICAN METHOD.
▶ Two special types of machines employed in
track-lying are :
▶ A TRUCT MOUNTED PROJECTING ARM or JIB:
▶ A WAGON MOUNTED, CANTILEVERED ARM or JIB
▶ A TRUCT MOUNTED PROJECTING ARM or JIB:
▶ Laying of materials which have been received at
rail-head by material trains.
▶ A WAGON MOUNTED, CANTILEVERED ARM or JIB:
▶ Assembled panels of two rails and number of sleepers
required for these two rails are prepared in the
workshop.
▶ These assembled panels and special
material handing cranes are delivered at rail
head by material- trains.
▶ One set of two rails and sleepers is unloaded
by a Special machine.
▶ Now material train moves ahead of rail
head by one rail length.
▶ The whole procedure is repeated till the
track us laid
▶ THIRD STAGE---LAYING OF BALLAST:
▶ The work of spreading the ballast is done by means
of ballast trains.
▶ The work of ballast is done by ballast trains in either
of the two following ways:
▶ Ballast is loaded in wagons of the train and then
unloaded at the sites into a number of heaps at
suitable intervals along the track.
▶ The spreading of the ballast on the track can
directly be done by ballast trains.
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