Flatsleppers, Tavanasa (Switzerland)

Application: road undercrossing
Length of track: Ca. 16m
Material used: 12cm-FFU-Flatsleepers
Country: Switzerland
Project location: Tavanasa
Owner: Rhaetian Railway (RhB)

The Rhaetian Railway (RhB) installed a sleeper grid of FFU flat sleepers with a sleeper height of 12cm and a length of 15.7 metres. The installation took place in the ballast bed at a country lane underpass between Waltensburg and Tavanasa at km 53,970 of the line to Disentis. The object lies in a transition curve 51 metres in length. The maximum superelevation at the end of the transition curve is 79 mm. Beforehand, the existing bridge construction was partly dismantled and a new ballast tray of precast concrete parts was fitted.