To prevent the change in gauge and creep, the steel sleepers are fixed by clips, bolts and

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• To prevent creep in rails, the steel sleepers are fixed with rails by clips, bolts and
• Steel sleepers consist of steel troughs made out of about 6 mm thick steel sheets, with
• The standard size of timber sleepers in railway tracks of metre gauge and narrow gauge is same.
• Rails are fixed on steel sleepers
• Ballast packed below and around the sleepers to transfer the load from sleepers to formation, generally consists of
• Metal sleepers are superior to wooden sleepers with respect to
• The wooden sleepers are the ideal sleepers
• Two fish plates are fixed at each rail joint with eight fish bolts.
• Anti-creep anchors are fixed to rails by
• At points and crossings, the total number of sleepers for 1 in 12 turnouts in Broad Gauge is