Patent ID: 8146834

Claim:
A concrete carriageway for rail vehicles, comprising: a single- or multiple-block sleepers embedded in a carriageway panel, the carriageway panel having areas of thinned cross-section extending transverse to the direction of travel from one edge of the carriageway panel to an opposite edge, said areas of thinned cross-section being formed as grooves or joints or notches in the carriageway panel, the areas of thinned cross-section being defined at least in part by at least one force transmission-interrupting body embedded in the carriageway panel, the at least one force transmission-interrupting body being comprised of a foil, plate, slab or textile; and at least one body for transmitting transverse forces, said at least one body extending across each of said areas of thinned cross-section, said at least one body further extending over at least a portion of the carriageway panel to span each side of the corresponding area of thinned cross-section, said at least one force transmission-interrupting body is located at a surface of the carriageway panel so as to be removable after corresponding areas of thinned cross-section have been generated.