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Transportation Engineering Question on Geometric design of railway Track

The number of trains and their corresponding speeds for a curved Broad Gauge section with 437 m radius, are

  • 20 trains travel at a speed of 40 km/hr
  • 15 trains travel at a speed of 50 km/hr
  • 12 trains travel at a speed of 60 km/hr
  • 8 trains travel at a speed of 70 km/hr
  • 3 trains travel at a speed of 80 km/hr

If the gauge (center-to-center distance between the rail heads) is taken as 1750 mm, the required equilibrium cant (in mm) will be ______ (rounded off to the nearest integer).

Answer

The answer is: 86 or 90 (approx.)