Deutsche Bahn tightens up inspection of sleepers
Concrete sleepers in Germany all have to be inspected, including these in Saxony Falk2 / WikiMedia
The various inspection rounds of sleepers across Germany in recent months have resulted in new, tightened procedures at Deutsche Bahn (DB) regarding future inspections. Sleepers have been at the centre of attention since last year’s deadly derailment in the state Bavaria.
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Above photo raises questions.
Different dimensions, is seen, compared the nearby sleeper, an old?
(If those bigger are new and replacing a damaged, it is not just about a “special additive”, or?)
Regardless which, “immediate replacements” fits too well into “optimal maintenance”, current “deed of neccesity” – at a track concept, not optimal, even worse short of redundancy (with no margins) – now calling for costly, suboptimal repairing- and, already at last century, due for being outed…