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This document contains the questions for Assignment 1 of Module III for the course CE 703C Advanced Highway and Transportation Engineering. The assignment covers topics related to railway engineering including requirements of an ideal rail section, problems due to non-uniform gauge, components of a railway track cross-section, considerations in selecting gauge, coning of wheels, railway route groups in India, adzing of sleepers, merits and demerits of flat footed rails, calculating number of sleepers for a track section, deriving an expression for minimum ballast depth, calculating maximum permissible load and speed for a locomotive, providing super-elevation for diverging curves, and short notes on ruling gradient, momentum gradient, pusher gradient and station gradient

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Railway Engineering Assignment Overview

This document contains the questions for Assignment 1 of Module III for the course CE 703C Advanced Highway and Transportation Engineering. The assignment covers topics related to railway engineering including requirements of an ideal rail section, problems due to non-uniform gauge, components of a railway track cross-section, considerations in selecting gauge, coning of wheels, railway route groups in India, adzing of sleepers, merits and demerits of flat footed rails, calculating number of sleepers for a track section, deriving an expression for minimum ballast depth, calculating maximum permissible load and speed for a locomotive, providing super-elevation for diverging curves, and short notes on ruling gradient, momentum gradient, pusher gradient and station gradient

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Department of Civil Engineering

Advanced Highway and Transportation


Engineering
CE 703C
Module III Assignment 1 Railway Engineering CO 4

1. Write down the requirements of an ideal rail section. [CO 4]

2. Write down the problems arising due to non-uniformity of gauge in railway [CO 4]
track.

3. Draw a typical cross-section of a railway track and show the P-way [CO 4]
components.

4. What are the considerations in selecting a gauge for a railway track? Explain [CO 4]
briefly.

5. Explain the term “Coning of Wheel” with a neat sketch. Why the coning is [CO 4]
provided?

6. What are the different groups of railway routes found in India (Discuss with [CO 4]
examples)? Mention the speed potentials of those groups.

7. What is meant by “Adzing of Sleeper”? [CO 4]

8. Discuss relative merits and demerits of Flat footed rails. [CO 4]

9. Calculate the number of sleepers required to construct a track of length 1 km [CO 4]


on a BG route with sleeper density (M+7).

10. Derive the expression for calculating minimum depth of ballast in railway [CO 4]
track.

11. Calculate the maximum permissible load that a B.G steam locomotive can [CO 4]
haul with 4 pairs of driving wheels with axle load of 23 tonnes each on a
straight level track at a speed of 90 kmph.
Also calculate the reduction in speed if the train has to run on a rising
gradient of 1 in 150.
What would be the further reduction of speed if the train has to negotiate a 4°
curve on the rising gradient? [Assume coefficient of friction = 0.22]

12. An 8° curve diverges out from a 3° curved main line in reverse direction of a [CO 4]
B.G line. The maximum permissible speed on branch line is 30 kmph.
Calculate the negative super-elevation to be provided on branch line and the
maximum permissible speed on main line.

13. A 7° curve diverges out from a 4° curved main line in reverse direction of a [CO 4]
B.G line. The maximum permissible speed on main line is 45 kmph.
Calculate the super-elevation and speed to be provided on branch line.
Department of Civil Engineering
Advanced Highway and Transportation
Engineering
CE 703C
Module III Assignment 1 Railway Engineering CO 4

14. What is the equilibrium cant on a 3 degree curve on a BG track if 15 trains, [CO 4]
10 trains, 5 trains and 2 trains are running at speed of 60 kmph, 70 kmph, 100
kmph and 120 kmph respectively?

15. Write short notes on: Ruling Gradient, Momentum Gradient, Pusher Gradient [CO 4]
and Station Gradient.

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