Lesson no. 4 & 6
In this lesson, I would like to discuss about the railway track that been used in worldwide and the process of designing and maintaining the railway track to ensure that the train can be used all the time due to the principle "Fail Safe" which is the railways track that had been broken need to be repaired first and it affect the capacity and frequencies of the train.
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A railway track, often known as a permanent way or just track, is a construction on a railway or railroad that consists of rails, fasteners, railroad ties or sleepers, and ballast (or slab track), as well as the underlying subgrade.
This is the picture of the famous Victoria Bridge in Kuala Kangsar which is frequently visit by tourist for an aesthetic view. I don't have any experience about this bridge because I only went to Kuala Kangsar once which is in 2019 for wedding of my uncle in Pulau Pinang. This is one of my goals to take picture with this iconic bridge some days.
TYPE OR RAILWAY TRACK
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Steel rail track
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Concrete track
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Single track
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Double track
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Non-Parallel
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Handedness
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Bi-Directional
RAILWAY STATION
RAILWAY TRACK
LAND
SEA
EVIDENCE ACTIVITY I
Based on the train model that been assigned to me, I can reflect that it is not an easy job to create a railway track because we need to forecast the cost, distance, type of railway track that will be used and also type of train that will be used.
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There also things that need to be highlighted to construct a railways :-
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Sleepers / Ties
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Track Ballast
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Rail Size
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Track Gauge
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Standard Gauge
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Narrow Gauge
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Broad Gauge
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Mixed Gauge
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TRAIN
The crushed stones are what is known as ballast. Their purpose is to hold the wooden cross ties in place, which in turn hold the rails in place. Railroad ballast serves as a bed for railroad tracks and provides track stability, drainage, and support of significant loads carried by railcars. In addition, it deters the growth of vegetation and allows for track maintenance to be performed more easily. Ballast is produced from natural deposits of granite, trap rock, quartzite, dolomite or limestone.
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