Re: Wien and Praha tram track construction
  Mal Rowe

On 23/05/2023 18:04, Mark Skinner wrote:
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> In Prague, for reasons I have never been able to fathom, special work is usually done using timber sleepers. There must be a specific reason,  as DP Praha uses modern techniques and machinery elsewhere.


As you say, there must be a reason.

In Melbourne, where pointwork comes from Czech suppliers, it is usual practice for the special work to be pre-assembled, attached to steel I section beams and simply dropped in.

Vincent Chan's pic from last year shows it well.

So does my pic at: https://tdu.to/i/41428

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