Rail joint straightness - the effect of tamping on the unloaded profiles of a sample of flash welds (TM-MET-009)

A great deal of time and money is spent on BR carrying out track tamping to rectify ballast deterioration, some of which can be ascribed to the presence of irregularly-shaped welds. This report examines the changes in weld shape which occurred when a length of track, already under observation, was...