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Posted: **Mon Oct 31, 2022 4:23 am**

Three rotten wooden sleepers were dug out and replaced with concrete ones, the old sleepers were not holding the rails in gauge and were deemed a potential derailment hazard.
Replacing old wood sleepers with concrete sleepers is part of an ongoing project on the ASCR

Concrete sleeper

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Digging out old sleepers

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Positioning concrete sleeper

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New sleepers in position clipped onto rail

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Tamping with jackhammers

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Sleepers laid

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Posted: **Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:40 pm**

Good work!

I don't think I've seen concrete sleepers used on the UK narrow gauge, although the Ffestiniog are using recycled plastic ones...

Posted: **Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:12 pm**

Andrew wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:40 pm I don't think I've seen concrete sleepers used on the UK narrow gauge, although the Ffestiniog are using recycled plastic ones...

Fairbourne had them in 15" gauge days; from memory they were removed because whatever rail fastening they used proved hard to tighten up. Some survive as platform edging etc. I think Volk's had them at one point as well.

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