Original mine railways used wax-impregnated wooden rails attached to wooden sleepers, on which drams were dragged by men, children or animals.
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The rails were held together by wooden sleepers, covered with ballast to provide a surface for the horse to walk on.
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The house is soundproof and fireproof, with each floor constructed of reinforced concrete with wooden sleepers overtop, supporting the finished wood floors.
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The tramway was relaid with flat bottom rails on wooden sleepers allowing a locomotive to be used on the line to Stepaside.
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The track rails were spiked direct to wooden sleepers, not stone setts, and fine ballast was laid between the rails for the horses'walkway.
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The CFC used rails laid on wooden sleepers, and Westinghouse continuous braking, quite an advanced piece of technology on such a small gauge.
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Similar wooden trenail fastenings were used as alternatives to metal spikes to secure railroad rail-support " chairs " to wooden sleepers in early Victorian times.
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The track consisted of circular steel pipe of about 6mm wall thickness, welded to steel cross members which were in turn bolted to wooden sleepers.
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The narrow gauge tracks were a combination of ex-First World War and former colliery light railway track, supported on wooden sleepers made from dismantled warships.
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It consisted of ordinary gas piping laid on wooden sleepers, with a fifty-foot wire rope bridge, sharp corners and slopes up to one in five.
