(rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage. (obsolete, dialect) A ...
Cant: The superelevation angle of a track (the relative level of one rail to the other), typically around a curve; Cape: A
The "cess" shown each side of the alignment is the area available for a walkway or refuge for staff working on the track. The Sub-Structure. This ...
In the UK, the cess is used by track repair crews to walk to a work site, and as a safe place to stand when a train is passing. This helps when doing minor work, ...
CESS. The area either side of the railway immediately off the ballast
is placed / exist below track structure to transmit load to subsoil. 2.4. Cess: Portion at top of formation level, extending from toe of ballast to edge of formation . 2.5.
Cess: the space alongside the outer extremities of the railway lines. 4 foot:.
Cess should be maintained to the correct depth below rail level according to the ...
subsequent silting up of cess drains. (See Figure 3). Issue A. Australian Rail Track Corporation. Revision 0. This document is uncontrolled when printed.
Subsurface drainage shall be provided along the cess, between, across, or under tracks as required. © Rail Corporation. Page 18 of 82. Issued ...