Top 550+ Solved Railway Engineering MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Mr. W. Simms, the consulting Engineer to the Government of India recommended the gauge forIndian railways
a. 1.435 m as adopted in england
b. 1.800 m as per indian conditions
c. 1.676 m as a compromise gauge
d. 1.000 m as a standard gauge
Q. The distance between theoretical nose of crossing and actual nose of crossing for practicalpurposes, is
a. nose thickness ×
b. nose thickness ×
c. nose thickness ×
d. nose thickness ×
Q. Best ballast contains stones varying in size from
a. 1.5 cm to 3 cm
b. 2.0 cm to 4 cm
c. 2.0 cm to 5 cm
d. 2.5 cm to 6 cm
Q. A turn-in-curve is defined as
a. a curve introduced between two straights
b. a reverse curve
c. a reverse curve introduced in continuity of a turn out
d. a spiral transition curve
Q. In India the rails are manufactured by
a. open hearth process
b. duplex process
c. both (a) and (b)
d. neither (a) nor (b)
Q. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. Required tilt of 1 in 20 is provided
a. to the tops of rails
b. at rail seats in bearing plates
c. at rail seats in chairs
d. at rail seats in metal sleepers
Q. If a 0.7% upgrade meets a 0.65% downgrade at a summit and the permissible rate of change ofgrade per chain length is 0.10%, the length of the vertical curve, is
a. 10 chains
b. 12 chains
c. 14 chains
d. 16 chains
Q. Main disadvantage of steel sleepers, is:
a. it gets rusted quickly
b. its lugs sometimes get broken
c. its lugs sometimes get split
d. all the above
Q. For a Broad Gauge route with (M + 7) sleeper density, number of sleepers per rail length is
a. 18
b. 19
c. 20
d. 21
Q. Bearing plates are used to fix
a. flat footed rails to the wooden sleepers
b. double headed rails to the wooden sleepers
c. bull headed rails to the wooden sleepers
d. flat footed rails to the cast iron sleepers
Q. On a single line track, 10 goods trains loaded with iron ore run from A to B and empty wagonsreturn from B to A daily. Amount of creep of the rails will be
a. zero
b. more in the direction a to b
c. more in the direction b to a
d. none of these
Q. The desirable rate of change of cant deficiency in case of Metre Gauge is
a. 20 mm/sec
b. 35 mm/sec
c. 55 mm/sec
d. 65 mm/sec