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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