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  • Question
  • Pick up the correct statement from the following :


  • Options
  • A. Rails are directly laid over hard wooden sleepers and fixed with spikes
  • B. Adzing is done on hard wooden sleepers
  • C. Bearing plates are used on soft wooden sleepers
  • D. Chairs are used for bull headed rails
  • E. All the above.

  • Correct Answer
  • All the above. 


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    • 1. Pot sleepers are in the form of

    • Options
    • A. a number of bowls connected together with a tie bar
    • B. two bowls placed under each rail and connected together with a tie bar
    • C. two bowls placed under two rails and the one between the rails
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 2. For holding a rail in position, no chairs are used for

    • Options
    • A. flat footed rails
    • B. bull headed rails
    • C. double headed rails
    • D. both (a) and (b)
    • Discuss
    • 3. A welded rail joint is generally

    • Options
    • A. supported on a sleeper
    • B. supported on a metal plate
    • C. suspended
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 4. If ? is switch angle and R is radius of the turnout, the length of the tongue rail, is

    • Options
    • A. R sin ?
    • B. R tan ?
    • C. R sin ?/2
    • D. R tan ?/2
    • E. R cos ?/2
    • Discuss
    • 5. Boxing of ballast is done

    • Options
    • A. under rails
    • B. at the rails
    • C. in between two rails
    • D. in between two sleepers.
    • Discuss
    • 6. If absolute levels of rails at the consecutive axles A, B, and C separated by 1.8 metres are 100.505 m, 100.530 m, and 100.525 m respectively, the unevenness of rails, is

    • Options
    • A. 0.065 m
    • B. 0.055 m
    • C. 0.045 m
    • D. 0.035 m
    • Discuss
    • 7. Best wood for wooden sleepers is

    • Options
    • A. chir
    • B. deodar
    • C. sal
    • D. teak
    • E. shesham.
    • Discuss
    • 8. Safe speed (V) on a curve of radius 970 metres provided with two transition curves on Board Gauge track, is

    • Options
    • A. 112 km/hour
    • B. 122 km/hour
    • C. 132 km/hour
    • D. 142 km/hour
    • Discuss
    • 9. Arrangement made to divert the trains from one track to another, is known as

    • Options
    • A. railway point
    • B. railway crossing
    • C. turnout
    • D. railway junction
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 10. In India the rails are manufactured by

    • Options
    • A. open hearth process
    • B. duplex process
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. neither (a) nor (b)
    • Discuss


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