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Survey Stations | Main Stations | Subsidiary or Tie Station

August 31, 2010 by admin 4 Comments

A Survey Station is a point of Importance at the beginning and end of a chain line. There are two main types of stations namely Main station and Subsidiary or Tie station.

Main stations are the ends of the lines which command the Boundary of the survey, and the lines joining the main stations are called main Survey or Chain lines.
Subsidiary or tie station
Any Point selected on the main survey line where it is necessary to run the auxiliary lines to locate the interior details such as fences, hedges, buildings,etc., when they are at some distance from the main survey lines are known as Subsidiary or Tie stations .

The lines joining such stations are known as tie line or subsidiary line.

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  1. asim afridi says

    March 31, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    When we find any obsticle during chain survey then the obsticle line drawn is known as tie line????

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  2. Murtaza Gujjar says

    September 20, 2018 at 4:07 pm

    thanku maybe that is right.

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    • bob says

      October 26, 2018 at 1:57 pm

      are you okkkkkkkk?

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  3. SURESH says

    July 7, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    excelent content…to learn civil engineering

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