Self stabilizing track system
AssigneeKonkan Railwary Corporation Ltd.
InventorBojji Rajaram
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Abstract
A rail track structure for securing railway rails on a ballast track or a solid track includes a standard sleeper used on the ballast track; consisting of a plurality of gabions holding ballast and a resiliently compressible pad placed below the sleeper typically below the rail seat between the sleeper and the gabions.
Claims18
A track structure for fastening rails comprising
- [i] a ballast bed consisting of a plurality of discrete gabion type inter fitting elements;
- [ii] sleepers for fixing rails thereto adapted to be laid and fitted on the said ballast bed;
- [iii] a resiliently compressible pad adapted to be provided between the said sleepers and the ballast bed.
A ballast bed comprising of discrete gabion type inter fitting elements formed by filling support elements with ballast material at least some of the gabions provided with resilient pads for mounting sleepers thereon.
A method of making a track structure consisting comprising the steps of
- (i) preparing a sub soil bed for forming the track structure thereon;
- (ii) filling ballast material in support elements to form ballast gabions;
- (iii) interfitting the ballast gabions to form a ballast bed over the subsoil bed;
- (iv) providing resilient elements over distinct sleeper mounting locations on the formed ballast bed;
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- (v) fitting sleepers over the resilient elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.