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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Railway Engineering
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Railway engineering is a multi-faceted engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction and operation of all types of rail transport systems. (Source: Wikipedia)

Engineering subjects that are part of railway engineering include:

Mechanical engineering.
Command, control & railway signalling. Office systems design. Data center design. SCADA. Etc
Electrical engineering. Energy electrification. Third rail. Etc
Civil engineering. Permanent way engineering.
Light rail systems.
On-track plant.
Rail systems integration.
Train control systems. Cab signalling.

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Railway Engineering
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25 Questions

1. Track construction involves preparation of
2. 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
3. Pot sleepers are in the form of
4. If 'A' is the angle formed by two gauge faces, the crossing number will be
5. The main advantage of a cement concrete sleeper, is:
6. Staggered rail joints are generally provided
7. The rail section which is not used on Indian Broad Gauge tracks, is
8. The main advantage of a long rail over short one, is
9. When semaphore and warner are installed on the same post, then the stop indication is given when
10. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. Required tilt of 1 in 20 is provided
11. The cross-sectional area of 52 kg flat footed rail is
12. For a 8° curve track diverging from a main curve of 5° in an opposite direction in the layout of a broad gauge yard, the cant to be provided for the branch track for maximum speed of 45 km/h on the main line and 'G' = 1.676 m is (Permitted cant deficiency for the main line = 7.6 cm)
13. The factor for deciding the type of sleeper, is
14. Consider the following statements about concrete sleepers.
1. They improve the track modulus. 2. They have good scrap value. 3. They render transportation easy. 4. They maintain the gauge quite satisfactorily.
Of these statements
15. In a shunting signal if the red band is inclined at 45° it indicates
16. In railways a triangle is mainly provided for
17. The main function of sleepers, is
18. Flange-way clearance is the distance
19. The arrangement of rails which permit trains to cross another track and also to divert to the other track, is called
20. Bearing plates are used to fix
21. The type of spike used for fixing chairs of bull headed rails to wooden sleepers is
22. Rail tops of a track are placed
23. The correct relation between curve lead (CL), switch lead (SL) and lead of crossing (L) is given by
24. The limiting value of cant excess for Broad Gauge is
25. Each block of a two-block concrete sleeper is

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