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I dont know the significance but here in Melbourne (Australia) there seems to be no hesitation in installing turnouts laid on concrete sleepers. At Sydenham they built a new station to serve as a terminus for the EMU service from the city and all the turnouts there are laid on concrete including about four so called "high-speed" turnouts although they arent all that high speed by todays standard and i believe they lack movable frogs. <br />In my home town they have 2 near complete turnouts on concrete sleepers laying beside the mainline ready for installation. I dont know for sure but I believe these particular turnouts are capable of handling a train at 100mph through the diverging route. Once again i'm not sure if there are movable frogs on these or not. <br />I should note that these locations are mixed traffic also, both hosting heavy passenger traffic during the day and then heavy freight traffic during the night.
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