Rail Anchors

When the train is travelling, Often make a longitudinal force on the rail, this force can lead the Rail gap uniform, and Sleeper skewed, this is very dangerous, so we need a tool to restrain it. He anchors are used where the fastenings system requires an extra creep resisting arrangement. There are various shapes of the anchor which is made of rolled bars of various sections. When driven in the rail, the railway anchor grips the rail firmly and when set against sleepers, resists longitudinal movement of the rails caused by passing trains.
Rail anchor- A device attached to a rail to keep it from moving longitudinally as a result of temperature change or under traffic. Also called anticreeper.