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Boy badly injured by railway sleepers
21 August 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper News
A Sheffield boy was badly hurt by a broken Railway Sleeper Fence. Bailey cut his leg on a fence made of railway sleepers near his home in Westfield. The schoolboy who was out playing with a friend needed nineteen stitches after ripping open his thigh on a wooden fence made from railway sleepers - which his mum Kirsty says is in desperate need of repair.
100 railway sleepers stolen from station
20 August 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper News
Railway sleepers valued at £2,000 were stolen from Tain railway station. Inverness police warn: "If you are offered Railway Sleepers from an unusual source I would ask you to immediately contact British Transport Police."
£100m deal to supply plastic railway sleepers
16 August 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper News
£100m deal to supply plastic railway sleepers! Network Rail plans to replace nearly 200,000 wooden Railway Sleepers a year with plastic supermarket bags, recycled car bumpers and used drinks bottles. Under the unique agreement, I-PLAS from Halifax will build “green” railway sleepers out of 100 per cent recycled plastic.
Fighting railway sleeper warriors
05 August 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper Stories
Our fragmented army is waiting. There is a kind of numb inevitability to our fate. I feel scared, panicky. Any moment the most fierceome of enemies will arrive. Death is unavoidable. The coming warriors are vast in numbers, ruthless, moving silently with immense speed & strength. They are Dutch. Eight foot six inch in stature. And creosote treated...?!!
Network to recycle rubbish into railway sleepers
28 July 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper News
Network Rail to recycle rubbish into railway sleepers. Material from old car bumpers and plastic bottles will replace timber railway sleepers in trial on slower lines. Britain's railways are turning to recycled plastic in a trial of environmentally friendly railway sleepers. Network Rail is to fit up to 250 of the green railway sleepers, made from old car bumpers and plastic bottles, on the network this summer. The material will replace traditional timber railway sleepers, which are ...
Art made from used railway sleepers
27 July 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper Stories
From Railway Sleepers to Art Furniture. Natanel Gluska is a multi-disciplinary Swiss artist who currently lives and works in Singapore. Gluska is renowned for producing one-off, handcrafted furniture pieces that become collectors’ items. Here, he transforms Australian Jarrah wood from unused railway sleepers into art furniture that delights in both form and function.
Alan Titchmarsh & the case of the missing railway sleepers.
27 July 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper Stories
There are new fears over the safety of our railway sleepers & railway lines tonight following the publication of a new report. The report, which is the latest in a long line of such works, states: "For years we have been having trouble with damaged or missing railway sleepers," said Dr Douglas Ramsbottom. "At last we have found an explanation: Alan Titchmarsh.
Danger! Exploding railway sleepers!
26 July 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper News
Railway Sleepers Could Explode! THIEVES who raided an engineering yard in Bedworth have been warned by police: "The stolen railway sleepers could kill you!". The strong-armed raiders stole 50 wooden railway sleepers fitted with special compressed air units. Police today issued an urgent safety appeal, warning the culprits that they are risking serious injury - or even death - if they tamper with the railway sleepers.
Concrete Railway Sleepers endanger future of railway sleeper cutters
26 July 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper News
Concrete threatens future of railway sleeper cutters. The national Australian program to replace timber railway sleepers with concrete ones has attracted some controversy. Despite this, the railway sleeper replacement program is going full steam ahead, and the Federal Government expects a third of all interstate lines will be converted over the next four years. But what does this mean for the people who source and cut timber railway sleepers?
Mural of railway sleeper cutters
26 July 2013 / Posted in: Railway Sleeper Stories
Mural of railway sleeper cutters: "The Timber Cutters". Sue Linton, Artist. This mural depicts the timber railway sleeper cutters who used to cut timber in the Watagan Mountain Forest for railway sleepers used in the local mine railways.The tree would be cut down with the crosscut saw that needed one man either end. The log was then cut into smaller lengths and these were split for the roughcut railway sleepers.
