Railway track structure and a method of building such structure and bags filled with ballast material
AssigneeAkzo N.V.
InventorsKarl Klugar, Gerardus P. T. M. Van Santvoort
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Abstract
The invention relates to a railway track structure of which the rails are fastened to sleepers. Under each sleeper there are provided one or more bags filled with ballast material in the form of pebbles, broken stone and/or sand. The invention also comprises a method of building such a railway track structure.
Claims22
A railway track structure formed of at least a pair of rails which are fastened to a plurality of mutually separated sleepers extending in transverse direction of the rails, which are via the sleepers supported on a bed of ballast material, characterized in that each sleeper is supported by and fastened to at least one supporting element comprising a closed bag at least substantially filled with hard ballast material such as pebbles, broken stone and/or sand, which bags mainly form the load-bearing portion of said bed of ballast material.
A method of building a railway track structure on a subsoil comprising fastening at least a pair of rails to a plurality of mutually separated individual sleepers extending in transverse direction of the rails, which are via the sleepers supported on a bed of ballast material, characterized in that each sleeper is supported by and fastened to at least one supporting element comprising a closed bag at least substantially filled with hard ballast material such as pebbles, broken stone and/or sand, which bags mainly form the load-bearing portion of said bed of ballast material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.