Work to clear weeds from a heritage railway line in Dorset has been carried out with the help of specialist equipment.A Multi ...

The track ballast is packed below, between, and around the railroad ties. The thickness of the track ballast is usually around 25 to 30 cm, sometimes more depending on the amount of traffic on the ...

A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to keep ... the true complexity of a railway, where even just keep keeping the trains on the track can be a daunting task.

Machines and technology, together with armies of workers, are creating the future of rail travel in South East Queensland ...

A hole has been found underneath the track where a train derailed, the rail operator said ... or just underneath the track – in the ballast and the earth underneath. “As a result of that ...

More than a decade ago, the now-80-year-old retired electrical engineer began building what he calls the Belleville and ...

The second part of our preview of InnoTrans in Berlin, profiling the key exhibitor highlights at the world's railway industry ...

The Ferrocarril Central Railroad project included the rehabilitation ... concrete sleepers and ballast. A total of 344km of new tracks was laid. The 264km of primary track, connecting the Port of ...

Weeds have been removed from the Swanage Railway heritage line with the help of a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV).

Railroad men will concede that on crowded, single-track Asiatic railways a freight ... and the number of cubic yards of ballast 750.000, at a cost of $525,000. The cost of new steel bridges ...