RUBBER RAIL-TO-SLEEPER FASTENING

A rail-to-sleeper fastening on trial on British Railways is applicable to ordinary flat-bottom rails, but is specially designed to resist any tendency towards buckling in long-welded rails. The advantages claimed are: simplicity; cheapness in first, maintenance, and replacement costs; safety, sufficient elasticity to protect the sleepers against impact and so increase their lives; and no interference with track-circuiting. The fastening consists of a cast-iron baseplate enclosing a rubber pad upon which the rail-base is held securely both vertically, transversely and laterally by metal-rubber wedges fitting tightly into jaws cast integrally as part of the baseplate.

• Corporate Authors:

  Temple Press Limited

  161-166 Fleet Street
  Longon EC4,   England 
• Publication Date: 1958-11-28

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 54
• Serial:
  • RAILWAY GAZETTE
  • Volume: 109

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buckling; Costs; Fastenings; Maintenance management; Mat footings; Railroad rails; Railroad ties; Railroad tracks; Rubber; Structural design; Technology; Welded rail; Wood ties
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs; Track design
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Rubber mats; Wooden cross ties
• Subject Areas: Finance; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00037662
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 4 1994 12:00AM