Technique involves mobile jig platform which permits assembling of track in 240 ft lengths at railhead; jig accurately clamps rails at correct gage above sole plates and sleepers which are positioned in channels slots on mobile platform; supply gantry, operation sequence, mechanized ballasting, tracing of route with tunnels and bridges through difficult terrain in detail, savings with nestable type Armco culverts of 60-in. ID; foolproof operation, despite unskilled labor, was aided by electronic centralized traffic control signaling.


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    Title :

    Prefab tracks speed construction of Swaziland railway


    Additional title:

    World Construction


    Contributors:
    Warden, W. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1965


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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