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Review of rail joint failure: Statistics of European railways (RR-STR-95-089)

Last updated on 20 December 2013 11:50

The weakest links in a long length of rail are normally the joints between the individual rails. Information on the failure rates of various types of rail joint has been reviewed. This was based on a survey of joint failure data obtained from several European railway administrations. The joint...

Author(s): Banton I.;Sinclair J.C.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1995

United Kingdom

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