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The whole syllabus on ten illustrated pages — track, curves, turnouts, maintenance, works, stores, rules and safety. Free to read here; written for the last weeks before a departmental exam.
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Objectives and components of a railway system, station types (block, wayside, junction, terminal), yards, loop lines and sidings, absolute and automatic block working, token and tokenless working, interlocking.
Permanent way components and their functions: rails (52 kg and 60 kg flat-footed sections), wooden, CST-9, steel trough and PSC sleepers, ballast functions and properties, formation and drainage.
Why curves are needed, circular and transition curves, degree of curve (R = 1750/D), cant, cant deficiency, versine (v = L²/8R), ruling, momentum and pusher gradients, schedule of dimensions.
Turnout parts (stock rail, tongue rail, heel, toe, crossing, wing and check rails, TNC/ANC, lead), turnout numbers 1 in 8.5, 1 in 12 and 1 in 16, types of switches and crossings including CMS and swing nose.
Objectives of track maintenance, packing, boxing, alignment and gauge correction, renewal criteria, and track machines: tamping machine, BCM, track recording car, TRT, DTS, rail grinder and USFD testing.
Works programme and budget, preparation of plans, key plan, GAD, engineering scale plan, yard plan, completion drawings, title blocks, abstract and detailed estimates, SOR, NIT, bid evaluation and acceptance.
Railway land: leasing, licensing and way-leave; finance: charged and voted expenditure, sanctions; stores: procurement, receipt, inspection, custody and issue; stock and non-stock items; registers and scrap disposal.
Muster, pay, leave and allowances, conduct rules, disciplinary procedure, industrial relations, RTI Act 2005 and Rajbhasha (official language) requirements, office procedure and file movement.
Safety principles, disaster management stages, action at accidents and protection of the line with detonators, first aid basics, level crossing safety and personal safety equipment for track workers.
A one-page mind map of the whole syllabus with the key formulae (N = cot F, cant, versine, degree of curve, block section) and exam-writing strategy.
Topic-wise sets and 10 full-length mock papers, scored instantly.
Open the mock tests