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Explain why, wooden (or concrete) sleepers are kept below the railway line.Please provide a diagram with labelling

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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=1/A

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