MECHANISATION MNIMISES TRACK OCCUPATION

Dominating SZD track design and maintenance strategy is the need to minimize interruptions to traffic flow. Heat treatment is used to prolong rail life, and large end-loading tracklaying cranes permit rapid removal and replacement of complete panels while the adjacent track still carries traffic. On double-track lines machines may be concentrated so that several 2-km segments of track are replaced during a staggered sequence of six-hour occupations which takes advantage of one prearranged gap in the passage of trains.

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  IPC Transport Press, Limited

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• Authors:
  • Finitskyi, S J
• Publication Date: 1977-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 267-269
• Serial:
  • Railway Gazette International
  • Volume: 133
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: DVV Media Group
  • ISSN: 0373-5346
  • Serial URL: http://www.railwaygazette.com/about-us.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Maintenance management; Maintenance of way; Maintenance practices; Planning; Productivity; Railroad tracks; Railroads; Track panels; Traffic delays; Train operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Train delays
• Geographic Terms: Former Soviet Union
• Old TRIS Terms: Track maintenance equipment; Track structures
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157966
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1977 12:00AM