MOD 3- ASSESSMENT 2

Public requirements in railway station is

• (A) Booking office

• (B) Platforms

• (C) Drinking water

• (D) All of the above

The station at which a railway line or one of its branches terminates or continuity of a line stops, is known as ____________.

• (A) Junction station

• (B) Terminal station

• (C) Non junction station

• (D) Flag station

The first warner signal seen by the driver is known as

• (A) Home signal

• (B) Disc signal

• (C) Routing signal

• (D) Outer signal

A railway yard in which wagons are received, sorted and trains are formed is called

• (A) Passenger yard

• (B) Goods yard

• (C) Marshalling yard

• (D) Loco yard

Hump yard is a type of

• (A) Passenger yard

• (B) Marshalling yard

• (C) Goods yard

• (D) Loco yard

In hump yard rising gradient is

• (A) 1 in 175

• (B) 1 in 200

• (C) 1 in 150

• (D) Both A and C

The toes of both the tongue rails are connected together by means of a plate which is called

• (A) Stretcher bar

• (B) Gauge tie bar

• (C) Tie bar

• (D) Tongue rail

The distance between the running edge of the stock and tongue rails at the switch heel, is called

• (A) Heel clearance

• (B) Heel divergence

• (C) Heel spacing

• (D) Either A or B

The maximum value of throw of switch for a broad gauge track is

• (A) 89 mm

• (B) 115 mm

• (C) 108 mm

• (D) 121 mm

A cross-over requires

• (A) Two sets of switches and two crossings

• (B) Two sets of switches and four crossings

• (C) Four sets of switches and four crossings

• (D) None of these