Concrete sleeper performance - loading tests on recovered sleepers from service installations, particular reference to soffit conditions (TM-CES-104)

The Research Department has been collecting data on the performance and/or deterioration of concrete sleepers and relating this to types, makes, ages, site conditions etc. A report No TM CES 069, dated July 1986 summarised observations in-situ at randomly selected sites on the West Coast Main Line. One recommendation...