Railway Track Material MCQ

21. Which of the following types of sleepers is preferred?

  1. CST-9 sleeper
  2. Steel trough sleeper
  3. Wooden sleeper
  4. Concrete sleeper
Answer
Answer. c

22. For the construction of a 640 m long B. G. railway track by using a sleeper density of M + 5, and the length of each rail is 12.8 m, the number of sleepers required will be

  1. 1000
  2. 900
  3. 800
  4. 700
Answer
Answer. b

23. Sleeper density, normally, adopted in Indian railway practice is

  1. M+ 1 to M +7
  2. M+1
  3. M
  4. M-2
Answer
Answer. a

24. Sleeper density is

  1. number of sleepers for two tracks
  2. number of sleepers per rail length
  3. a sleeper on either side of a rail joint
  4. minimum distance between two neighboring sleepers
Answer
Answer. b

25. Cement used for railway sleepers is designated as

  1. 53-S
  2. 40-S
  3. 48-S
  4. 46-S
Answer
Answer. a

26. Which of the following sleepers provide the best elasticity of track?

  1. Wooden sleeper
  2. Cast iron sleeper
  3. Steel sleeper
  4. RCC sleeper
Answer
Answer. a

27. Composite sleeper index is employed to determine

  1. sleeper density requirement
  2. number of fixtures requirement for a particular type of sleeper
  3. durability of sleeper
  4. mechanical strength of wooden sleepers and thereby gives its suitability to be used as sleepers.
Answer
Answer. d

28. For a Broad Gauge route with N+7 sleeper density, the number of sleepers per rail length is

  1. 18
  2. 19
  3. 20
  4. 21
Answer
Answer. c

29. For a sleeper density of (n +5), the number of sleepers required for constructing a broad gauge railway track of length 650 m is

  1. 975
  2. 918
  3. 900
  4. 880
Answer
Answer. c

30. Sleeper density in India is normally kept as follows

  1. M+ 1 to M +7
  2. M+1
  3. M
  4. M-2
Answer
Answer. a
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