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Ballastless track
Railway without a crushed stone bed / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of ties/sleepers and ballast is replaced by a rigid construction of concrete or asphalt.
![Ballastless track of the type "Low Vibration Track" with rails fastened to concrete ties/sleepers on a concrete slab in a turnout in the Gotthard Base Tunnel's Faido multifunction station.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/20141120_gotthard-basistunnel02-wikipedia-hannes-ortlieb.jpg/640px-20141120_gotthard-basistunnel02-wikipedia-hannes-ortlieb.jpg)
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