STEEL SLEEPERS
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An Initial order lor 7'l,>r -O steel -Icopers, c(|iial!in- oOMO tons of slecl. has hooii place! with a British linn hv the Southern Railway, which if the first British company lo adopt Me, i ::leo;nrs in prelcrcnce to timber. The supply ordered will enable aheut :R| miles of selected track lo he equipped over a. period ol two years. 'lhe rising price of imported limber sleepers, of wliieii ! .(ITO.O'II) are used auuiially on British railways, is the chief reason f< r the chan-e, lull the Southern Railway is also -aided hy i desire In help British industries and to experiment with the new sleepers. Steel sleepers are ll I read v ill We in some places abroad. wlmre it is estimated that their life will lie idiom thirtv years, against twenty years oi timber sleepers. In view if these fireiiimifa ne-s it- is believed that st--el may in the end prove more econo., in if a I.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1928, Page 3
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