Practice Test: Question Set - 01
1. What is the defect of rail with its end or ends bent in vertical direction?
- (A) Wear of
rails
- (B) Hogging of
rails
- (C) Creep of
rails
- (D) Bending of
rails
2. What is the name of the spike is in figure?
- (A) Round
- (B) Screw
- (C) Elastic
- (D) Dog
3. What is the name of the steel placed end to end to provide a level surface for the movement of trains?
- (A) Ballast
- (B) Sleepers
- (C) Rails
- (D) Fish plates
4. Which is used for changing the direction of engine?
- (A) Rail joint
- (B) Turn table
- (C) Points and
crossing
- (D) Terminal
station
5. Which crossing the right hand rail of one track crosses the left hand rail of another track and vice versa?
- (A) Acute angle
- (B) Obtuse angle
- (C) Square
- (D) Rectangular
6. Which is used to reduce creeping of rail?
- (A) Bearing
plates
- (B) Spikes
- (C) Anchors
- (D) Chairs
7. Who started the development of railways in India?
- (A) George
Stephenson
- (B) Lord
Dalhousie
- (C) Lord Curzon
- (D) Lord Ripon
8. What is the process of tightly ramming the ballast under the sleepers to transmit the load?
- (A) Packing
- (B) Laying
- (C) Boxing
- (D) Fixing
9. What is the name of the defect in rail due to abnormality of heavy load?
- (A) Hogging
- (B) Wear
- (C) Creep
- (D) Kink
10. Who started the development of railways in India?
- (A) George
Stephenson
- (B) Lord
Dalhousie
- (C) Lord Curzon
- (D) Lord Ripon
11. What is the name of the defect in rail due to abnormality of heavy load?
- (A) Hogging
- (B) Wear
- (C) Creep
- (D) Kink
12. What is the standard size of ballast for wooden sleepers?
- (A) 25 mm
- (B) 40 mm
- (C) 50 mm
- (D) 60 mm
13. What is the standard size of ballast for wooden sleepers?
- (A) 25 mm
- (B) 40 mm
- (C) 50 mm
- (D) 60 mm
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