Rail transport is the movement of passengers and goods using wheeled vehicles, made to run on railway tracks. Railways provide an energy-efficient way to transport material over land. The railway tracks are a large part of the system and provide smooth and hard surfaces on which the wheels of the train roll with a little friction. Also, the track spreads the weight of the train which means larger amounts can be carried than trucks and roads. For some railway infrastructure components, such as

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... ils, alternative materials are limited. However, for components such as railway sleepers, there are number of alternative materials available. Recent trend has been to exploit advanced fibre composite material for railway sleepers. Although early works in fibre composite development was largely in the aircraft industries, its outstanding characteristics of strength and durability makes it attractive for civil engineering applications such as bridge, beam reinforcement, railway sleeper and structural slab. This project is mainly to analyse and compare the classical sleepers and composite sleepers. These sleepers are structurally optimised in various shapes using ANSYS software. From the comparison of obtained results the best sleeper is recommended for railway track.