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Posted: Feb 22 2017 (08:31)
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Last Response: Feb 23 2017 (15:27)
14 Responses
Last Response: Feb 23 2017 (15:27)
3 Public Posts - Thu Feb 23, 2017
Most likely, the sleepers are covered by earth and ash. This was a common practice in loop lines and station yards earlier. Since there will be a lot of people and other things moving around in the yard, it would be difficult to walk on sleepers. So tracks in yards and loop lines were usually without ballast ( the stones we see around the tracks) and the sleepers embedded into the ground, so that people, carts, bullocks ( or horses) etc can move easily over them.
10 Public Posts - Thu Feb 23, 2017