STEEL SLEEPERS
ADOPTED ON BRITISH RAILWAY LONGER LIFE THAN TIMBER (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 3. An initial order for 70,000 steel sleepers, equalling 5000 tons of steel, has been placed with a British firm by the Southern Railway, which is the first British Company to adopt steel sleepers in preference to timber. The supply ordered will enable about 35 miles of selected track to be equipped, oyer a period of two years. The rising price of imported timber sleepers, of which four millions are used annually on British railways, is the chief reason for the change, but the Southern Railway is also guided by a desire io help British industries and to experiment with new sleepers, already in use in some places abroad, where it Is estimated that their life will be about 30 years, against the 20 years of timber sleepers. In view of these circumstances it is believed that steel may in the end prove more economical.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 61, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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