Railway tracks are banked at the curves so that :

Roads are banked on curves so that

Roads are banked on curves so that

A meter gauge railway track is to be banked at a circular curve of a radius 450m. What should be the elevation of the outer rail above the inner rail for an optimum speed at 54km/h, So that there is no side thrust on the outer rail.

A railway track is banked for a speed v, by making the height of the outer rail h higher than that of the inner rail. The distance between the rails is d. The radius of curvature of the track is r

A railway track is banked for a speed v, by making the height of the outer rail h higher than that of the inner rail. If the distance between the rails is l and the radius of the curvature of the track is r, then