UNCONVENTIONAL TRACKS. SLAB TRACK TESTS AT VELIM

The report describes tests at Velim of two types of in situ slab track, broad sleepered track, and conventional laid in a 450 M radius curve without cant and a straight track laid using prefabricated slabs. All withstood the planned fifty million tonne traffic loading and were subsequently subjected to further loading up to two hundred million tonne.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Restrictions on the use of this document are contained in the explanatory material.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Union of Railways

  Office of Research and Experiments
  Utrecht,   Netherlands 
• Publication Date: 1976-10

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 23 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete slab track; Curved track; Loads; Railroad tracks; Test tracks; Unconventional track
• Old TRIS Terms: Question d87; Track loading; Track tests; Velim test track
• Subject Areas: Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00053235
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Union of Railways
• Report/Paper Numbers: D87/RP 16/E
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM