STEEL SLEEPERS
USE ON BRITISH RAILWAY. A BIG ORDER PLACED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Tfclegraph—Copyrlgnt.: RUGBY, December 3. (Received Dec. 4, at 5.5 p.m.) An initial order for 70,000 steel sleepers, requiring 6000 tons of steel lias 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 bo equipped over a period of two years. Thd rise in the price of imported timber sleepers, of which 4,000,000 aro used every year on the British railways, • is the chief reaeon for the change, but the Southern Railway is also guided by a desire to help British industries and to experiment with the new sleepers, which are already in use in some places abroad, where it is estimated that their life will be about 30 years, against the 20 years timber sleepers. In view of these circumstances it is believed that steel may ® the end prove more economical.
■£. Michael (Jommerford lately celebrated hi? 105tb birthday in the . infirmary-at Ide nilb Kent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20583, 5 December 1928, Page 9
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