RRB Practice Test: Question Set - 05
1. In rainy season the dust in the ballast becomes mud and comes up by suction from below the rail joint. Such joint is called:
- (A) Wet joint
- (B) Water joint
- (C) Pumping joint
- (D) Blowing joint
2. Cant deficiency occurs when a vehicle travels around a curve at
- (A) Equilibrium
speed
- (B) Speeds
higher than equilibrium speed
- (C) Speeds
lower than equilibrium speed
- (D) Booked speed
3. The feeder gauge ___________ is commonly used for feeding raw materials to big Government manufacturing concerns as well as to private factories such as steel plants, oil refineries, sugar factories etc.
- (A) 0.6096 m
- (B) 0.792 m
- (C) 1 m
- (D) 1.676 m
4. Which of the following methods of designation of crossing is mostly used in India?
- (A) Center
line method
- (B) Right
angle method
- (C) Isosceles
angle method
- (D) None
of the above
5. The minimum length of a passenger platform for broad gauge railway should not be less than:
- (A) 305 m
- (B) 183 m
- (C) 495 m
- (D) 250 m
6. The treadle bar is provided
- (A) In the
middle of the track a little in front of the toes of the tongue rail
- (B) Near and
parallel to inner side of one of the rails
- (C) At right
angle to the rail
- (D) Near and
parallel to inner side of both the rails
7. The Railway provided just below the ground level is called:
- (A) Tube railway
- (B) Underground railway
- (C) Mono railway
- (D) Railway
8. Generally the weight/meter of the rails used in broad gauge is:
- (A) 55 kg
- (B) 45 kg
- (C) 35 kg
- (D) 65 kg
9. The limiting value of cant excess for Broad Gauge is
- (A) 55 mm
- (B) 65 mm
- (C) 75 mm
- (D) 100 mm
10. The correct relation between curve lead (CL), switch lead (SL) and lead of crossing (L) is given by
- (A) CL = L - SL
- (B) L = CL - SL
- (C) SL = L + CL
- (D) L = (CL +
SL)/2
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