Railway engineering

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Chandra, S.
Other Authors Agarwal, M. M.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
SeriesOxford higher education.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781613441091
9780195687798
Physical Description1 online zdroj (ix, 590 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • History and general features of Indian Railways
  • Various gauges on railways
  • Alignment of railway lines
  • Engineering surveys and construction of new lines
  • Track and track stress
  • Rails
  • Sleepers
  • Ballast
  • Subgrade and formation
  • Track fittings and fastenings
  • Creep of rails
  • Geometric design of track
  • Curves and super
  • Points and crossings
  • Track junctions and simple track layouts
  • Rail joints and welding of rails
  • Modern welded railway track
  • Track maintenance
  • Track drainage
  • Modern methods of track maintenance
  • Rehabilitation & renewal of track
  • Railway accidents and disaster management
  • Level crossing
  • Locomotives and other rolling stock
  • Train resistence and tractive power
  • Railway stations and yards
  • Equipments of railway stations
  • Construction of new railway lines & track linking
  • Suburban railways in metro cities
  • Railway tunneling
  • Signalling and interlocking
  • Modernisation of railways and high speed trains.