Published at the beginning of September the second edition of “Track Compendium” provides an essential guide for railway track engineers and practitioners. The book describes clearly and compactly the physical properties of individual track components and their interrelationships. This second edition contains several additional sections on the following topics: Installation and maintenance of overhead line Process control technology and safety technology Head checks and the wear resistance of head-hardened rails Equivalent conicity and running behaviour Interaction of the vehicle with track geometry faults Durability of wooden sleepers Ballast bed cleaning and ballast properties The author Bernhard Lichtberger has an experience of over more than 20 years of research in the field of track behaviour and the optimum methods of track maintenance. “Track Compendium” is for railway engineers a practical aid and an essential read for their daily business! weiterlesen