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because when train comes in high speed it expands a little.for this reason railway tracks are laid
The sleepers - provide a solid surface for the rails to be anchored to. If the tracks were just laid n the ground, they would move every time a train went over them.
Sleepers, many of the sleepers on modern track are being replaced with concrete sleepers.
The wooden or concrete railway sleeper (or railroad tie) is used as the base for the railway track to keep the tracks intact in its place In other words, wooden sleepers hold the rails to the correct gauge. Additionally, they absorb and distribute the weight of the train uniformly. swampesterswithin.blogspot.com
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.
Railway lines (tracks) are laid down on a bed of evenly spaced sleeps. The sleepers are usually of creosoted heavy timber, though concrete is often used instead of wood. The sleepers kept the rail tracks from moving and causing a train to derail.
Railway tracks are laid on large sized wooden sleepers so that the thrust due to the weight of train is spread over large area .This reduces the pressure on the ground which would prevent the yielding of the ground
The wooden or concrete railway sleeper (or railroad tie) is used as the base for the railway track to keep the tracks intact in its place In other words, wooden sleepers hold the rails to the correct gauge. Additionally, they absorb and distribute the weight of the train uniformly. swampesterswithin.blogspot.com
Those are called sleepers. They spread the weight of the train and track over a wider area, they keep the rails on a set distance from each other, and - since the sleepers are mostly buried - they anchor the track in place on the ground.
For heat expansion.
Kevin rubio
Wood is good absorbing material of vibrations and it can efficiently spread & transfer the vibrations to the earth