Practice Test: Question Set - 02
1. Which method is used to repair the worn out or damaged rails and to built up damaged components of points and crossing?
- (A) Bending
- (B) Hogging
- (C) Creep
- (D) Welding
2. Which area wear of rails maximum?
- (A) Top of rail
- (B) End of rail
- (C) Inner side
of rail
- (D) Head of rail
3. Which gauge is adopted for main cities and routes of maximum intensities?
- (A) Broad
- (B) Narrow
- (C) Metre
- (D) Wide
4. Which gauge is adopted for main cities and routes of maximum intensities?
- (A) Broad
- (B) Narrow
- (C) Metre
- (D) Wide
5. What is the minimum depth of ballast for broad gauge?
- (A) 20 cm
- (B) 30 cm
- (C) 40 cm
- (D) 50 cm
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. What is used for fixing the rails to the wooden sleepers?
- (A) Spikes
- (B) Bearing
plates
- (C) Fish bolt
- (D) Rail chair
10. Which is used to reduce creeping of rail?
- (A) Bearing
plates
- (B) Spikes
- (C) Anchors
- (D) Chairs
11. What is the process for filling the ballast around the sleepers?
- (A) Creep
- (B) Turn table
- (C) Boxing
- (D) Coning
12. Which warner signal is first seen by the driver in railway station?
- (A) Disc signal
- (B) Home signal
- (C) Outer signal
- (D) Routing
signal
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