Modern Railway Track Second Edition MODERN RAILWAY TRACK Second Edition Coenraad Esveld Professor of Railway Engineering Delft University of Technology 2001 MRT-Productions Delft University of Technology Editing: Dior Zwarthoed-van Nieuwenhuizen Layout: Jan van ’t Zand, TU Delft Drawings: TU Delft Production: Koninklijke van de Garde BV ISBN 90-800324-3-3 SISO 696.3 UDC 625.1 © Copyright 2001 C. Esveld This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the right of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitations, broadcas- tings, reproduction on microfilm or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publi- cation or parts thereof is only permitted under the Dutch Copyright Law. This book can be ordered from: MRT-Productions . P.O. Box 331 . NL-5300 AH Zaltbommel . The Netherlands Tel.: +31 418 516369 . Fax: +31 418 516372 . Email:
[email protected] Internet: www.esveld.com Major contributions to this Second Edition were made by the following persons: Norbert Frank, Voest Alpine Schienen Stanislav Jovanovic, TU Delft Anton Kok, TU Delft Amy de Man, TU Delft Valeri Markine, TU Delft Rainer Oswald, VAE Peter Scheepmaker, TU Delft Rainer Wenty, Plasser & Theurer Gerard van der Werf, TU Delft and Arcadis Jan van ‘t Zand, TU Delft Arjen Zoeteman, TU Delft Jan Zwarthoed, TU Delft and Volker Stevin Rail & Traffic Modern Railway Track Second Edition To my grandchildren Thomas Maud Fieke and Douwe Publication of this book has been made possible