Railway track engineering is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the design, construction, and maintenance of rail infrastructure. A critical component of this endeavour is the ballast, which ...

The Federal Railroad Administration issued a safety advisory to emphasize the importance of timely repairs of ballast defects and conditions on main tracks. FRA notes that ballast defects and ballast ...

RAILWAY AGE, NOVEMBER 2023 ISSUE: High-production, computer-driven track machines and inspection vehicles perform one of the most critical of maintenance-of-way functions: keeping ballast in a ...

CHENNAI: Metro rail will lay ballasted tracks, where sleepers and rails rest on a bed of crushed stones like those of Indian Railways, in at least one of its depots servicing and maintaining ...