Development tests on rubber pads for British Rail direct laying track to be installed at Radcliffe-on-Trent (TM-TS-36)

As part, of the development of the B.R. Direct Fastening for use on a concrete slab the B.R. Engineering Research Department have carried out several tests on resilient rail pads: The main requirements of the pad were:- (a) To allow a vertical resilience beneath the rail similar to that...