The increasing demands of higher axle loads, speeds and usage means understanding the ballastrnbehavior and its interaction with the infrastructure remains a critical element to the design andrnsuccessful operation of ballasted railway track, Therefore it is important to study the degradationrnof ballast to increase and predict ballast life on the track, reduce waste track, keep good trackrnquality and minimize the frequency and cost of ballast replacement.rnThe primary objectives of this thesis are to identify the major source of ballast degradation,rnminimizing the ballast degradation, improve the performance of the ballast as well as the track,rnto avoid repeated maintenance by minimizing the ballast degradation and finally minimizingrnballast degradation of railway line mainly using geosynthetics materials namely Geocells andrnGeogrids.rnLiteratures have been thoroughly reviewed and the preliminary analysis were performed prior tornthe Finite Element Method (FEM) analysis with the software ANSYS. The analysis is comprisedrnof typical unreinforced and geocell and geogrid reinforced ballast section of National RailwayrnNetwork; track settlement, subgrade stress and subgrade stress - strain have been observed.rnAssessments have been made and promising results are obtained.rnThe result of the finite element analysis (FEA) shows that ballast embankment reinforced withrngeocell have reduced the track settlement and the subgrade stress beside this the intrusion ofrngeocell in the ballast provides a more linear stress-strain distribution.rnBallast embankment reinforced with geogrid was also analyzed; the ballast was reinforced at thernballast-subballast interface and within the ballast. The reinforcement at the ballast-subballastrninterface have reduced the track settlement and the subgrade stress much better than geogridrnreinforcement within the ballast and in both cases a linear stress-strain distribution is obtained.rnFinally conclusions were made that show geocell and geogrid improved the performance of weakrndegraded ballast and fresh good quality ballast. Also using reinforced ballast embankment onrnsoft subgrade reduced and distributes stress more evenly as well as reduced the track settlement.