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Explain, why wooden (or concrete) sleepers are kept below the railway line.

this is because wooden sleepers increase the area on which pressure of train is to be exerted. Thus pressure is not concentrated on a single point densely. Therefore if there more area there would be less pressure and train will run smoothly. As we know, P =


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