Sand may be used as ballast for

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• The ballast thrown around the sleepers and loosely filled on slopes is called boxing of ballast.
• The nominal size of ballast used for points and crossings is
• To keep the railway yard dry, the ballast used is
• The ballast material generally used on Indian railways consist of
• The size of ballast used on Indian railways for wooden sleepers is
• The size of ballast used on Indian railways for steel sleepers is
• The size of ballast used on Indian railways under points and crossings is 25 mm.
• For even distribution of load through ballast, load dispersal is assumed as
• Best ballast contains stones varying in size from
• Minimum depth of ballast cushion for a Broad Gauge wooden sleeper of size 275 × 25 × 13 cm with 75 cm sleeper spacing is