PRESENT FEATURE OF TURNOUTS

To reduce maintenance requirements, JNR is using heavier rails in turnouts and has designs based on concrete slabs and on wooden ties in ballastless trackbeds. Movable point frogs are used in high speed lines.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Japan Railway Engineers' Association

  2-5-18 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku
  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Kagami, M
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 19-20
• Serial:
  • Japanese Railway Engineering
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Japan Railway Engineers' Association
  • ISSN: 0448-8938

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ballastless track; Concrete slab track; Maintenance of way; Railroad frogs; Railroad tracks; Railroad turnouts
• Uncontrolled Terms: Switches
• Old TRIS Terms: Track structures
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00195688
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 11 1979 12:00AM