GATE CE 2024 Set 1 — Question 62

NAT+2 / -0MediumEquilibrium CantRailway Track DesignTransportation Engineering

Transportation Engineering → Railway Track Design → Equilibrium Cant

Last updated 5 September 2026

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The number of trains and their corresponding speeds for a curved Broad Gauge section with 437 m radius, are 20 trains travel at a speed of 40 km/hr 15 trains travel at a speed of 50 km/hr 12 trains travel at a speed of 60 km/hr 8 trains travel at a speed of 70 km/hr 3 trains travel at a speed of 80 km/hr If the gauge (center-to-center distance between the rail heads) is taken as 1750 mm, the required equilibrium cant (in mm) will be______________(rounded off to the nearest integer).

V_{eq}

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