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Steel Sleepers
Steel sleepers are used for factory tracks and turnouts as well as in railway tracks and for turnouts subjected to medium load. Steel sleepers are manufactured from different standard rolled profiles. The sleepers are cut to length, the ends are adzed at the sides in a forging die or sheets are welded onto the steel sleeper to enhance the lateral resistance.
Advantages
- High resistance to lateral displacement in the ballast
- Economical solution for tracks and turnouts which do not have to be electrically insulated
Technical characteristics:
| Rail fastening for low track loads | directly by means of clips and t-bolts |
| Rail fastening for higher loads | Base plates welded to sleeper tops |
| Rail cant achieved by appropriate forming | of the sleeper surface or by welded-on plates |
| Electrical insulation | On request by means of bolted plastic pads |
