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Railway track or railroad track, also known as permanent way or "P way", is the structure on a railway consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast, plus the underlying subgrade. It enable
Common contemporary practice in track construction, featuring well-drained ballast spread level with the tops of concrete sleepers/crossties – Australian National Railways, ca 1982
Traditional railway track showing ballast, sleepers, and rail fixings
Guideway of the Light Rail Transit system, Singapore, on which rubber-tyred automated people-mover vehicles operate
Slab track with flexible noise-reducing rail fixings, built by German company Max Bögl, on the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line
Railroad tie
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A railroad tie, crosstie, railway tie or railway sleeper is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast
Railway track
…as permanent way (per way) (CwthE) or "P way" (BrE and Indian English), is the structure on a railway consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. It enables trains to move by providing a dependable, low-friction surface…
Wooden ties are used on many traditional railways. In the background is a track with concrete ties.
Stone block from the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
Steel ties
KLP Hybrid Plastic Railroad Tie