PRE-BLOCK WORK

Pre-requisite works before tamping

Important pre-requisite works before maintenance tamping are as discussed below:

1. Track surveying
2. Ensuring firm bracing between rail and sleeper
3. Replacing defective rails and sleepers 
4. Track gauge correction
5. Ballast bed attention
6. Distressing of rails 
7. Adjustment of creep
8. Attention to hogged
9. Track drainage

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While planning for machine deployment it is very important to work out that whether some activities could be co-ordinated and done simultaneously in same traffic block. This will increase the effective utilisation of traffic block and manpower both.