The railway sleepers should act as elastic medium between the rails and the ballast.

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• The ballast thrown around the sleepers and loosely filled on slopes is called boxing of ballast.
• Ballast packed below and around the sleepers to transfer the load from sleepers to formation, generally consists of
• If sleeper density is M + 7 for 13 m rails, the minimum depth of ballast under wooden sleepers (25 cm × 13 cm), is
• To prevent creep in rails, the steel sleepers are fixed with rails by clips, bolts and
• Due to battering action of wheels over the end of the rails, the rails get bent down and are deflected at ends. These rails are called
• If w is width of sleepers, s is sleeper spacing and d is depth of ballast then
• For metal sleepers with rounded edges, maximum size of ballast, is
• For flat bottom sleepers, maximum size of ballast, is
• The size of ballast used on Indian railways for wooden sleepers is
• The size of ballast used on Indian railways for steel sleepers is