Railway Engineering

About the Book: Railway Engineering This well-known text-book now in its Twenty First Revised and Enlarged edition, provides an up-to-date account of the basic principles on various functions and working of Railways. Its excellent material fills a significant void in the literature of Railway Engineering. In this revised edition, chapter of Rapid Transit System is added containing Delhi Metro, Kolkata Metro, Dubai Metro and Tube Railways. The substantial new matter with sufficient new solved problems covering the new syllabus in railway engineering of almost all the Indian Universities as well as Polytechnic Institutions are added. Examples of latest and modern railways and tunnels constructed during past decade are cited at appropriate places. The book should prove to be extremely useful to the Civil Engineering students preparing for the Degree Examinations of all the Indian Universities, Diploma Examinations conducted by various Boards of Technical Education, Certificate Courses as well as for the A.M.I.E., U.P.S.C., G.A.T.E., I.E.S. and other similar competitive and professional examinations. It should also prove of interest to the practising professionals. Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Railway Surveys Chapter 3: Train Resistances And Rolling Stock Chapter 4: Rail Gauges Chapter 5: Rails Chapter 6: Rail Fastenings Chapter 7: Sleepers Chapter 8: Ballast Chapter 9: Plate-Laying Chapter 10: Maintenance Chapter 11: Creep Chapter 12: Curvature of Track Chapter 13: Stations And Yards Chapter 14: Station Machinery Chapter 15: Points And Crossings Chapter 16: Combinations of Points And Crossings Chapter 17: Signalling Chapter 18: Interlocking Chapter 19: Railway Traction Chapter 20: Earthwork And Drainage Chapter 21: Tunnelling Chapter 22: Rapid Transit System Chapter 23: Materials Management Appendix I: Units of the Indian Railways Appendix Ii: Training Institutions of the Indian Railways Appendix Iii: Famous Indian Trains Appendix Iv: Abbreviated Terms