Patent ID: 8459570

Claim:
A supporting assembly being arranged in a shoring zone of parallel railway tracks supported on generally parallel sleepers, the supporting assembly comprising: a pair of elongated longitudinal metal first beams each formed of interconnected flanges and a web, one each of said first beams being arranged generally parallel to and on the outer side of each railway track; said web of each first beam defining a cavity there through; a perpendicular metal second beam disposed beneath and in engagement with the underside of sections of each railway track with the opposite end sections of said second beam inserted in and passing through said cavities of said web of opposite each of said first beams; mechanical fixing means in engagement with each of said first beams and said second beam for firmly securing said first beams and said second beams to each other; wherein said second beam is arranged to engage the webs of each of said of each of first beams; wherein said mechanical fixing means includes a pair of at least two holes disposed through each side of one of said flanges of both of said first beams; wherein said mechanical fixing means includes at least one elongated first bar with one end thereof running through one of said holes in said flange with the opposite end of said first bar engaging the opposite flange; and wherein said mechanical fixing means also includes adjustable means on said first bar engaging said second beam for securing said second beam to said web of said first beam.