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Thirty point ends and components in another 47 will be renewed, 9,000 sleepers will be replaced and 9,000 metres of track reballasted.
The concrete is poured between the sleepers and over and between the reinforcement.
Panhandlers and street sleepers proliferate in New York, and soup kitchen lines have become noticeably longer.
Supplies such as ballast, rails and sleepers are moved to the site by train.
Black plastic between the sleepers and the soil will stop any leeching into the soil.
Some days ago, Billy had been found prostrate between the steel sleepers of the railroad.
We want to grab some weather-beaten sleepers from Irish Rail and then use them to influence the profile and texture of the finished concrete.
You can easily tell which wooden sleepers have been replaced with the concrete ones.
In 1880 William Eldridge called tenders for carting 80,000 sleepers to Gladstone Railway Station.
The rails and sleepers were lifted and the track-bed was sold or given to local farmers.
Bolts attaching rails to sleepers are marked with a vertical stripe of paint.
I had to walk through the lounge car, and then the diner to get to the sleepers.
I chose reclaimed railway sleepers to contain raised beds around the garden.
A saw mill built in the early years produced 5,000 railway sleepers and poles for fencing.
These ranged from missing safety clips that hold the rail in place, missing bolts, cracked sleepers and eroded ballast as well as worn out rails.
Some 1400 kilometres of earthworks need to be completed before it can take the ballast, sleepers and rails.
Rails were welded to sleepers in an operation aimed at providing a smoother, quieter and more reliable journey.
On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
They are commonly known as sleepers, or gudgeons in Australia and New Guinea, and in New Zealand they are called bullies.
Kerosene has been used to light pyres constructed of coal slag, old tyres and tar-soaked rail sleepers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Someone suggested we would have to restack the sleepers in their former places and we did not consider the suggestion absurd.
But the steady concert of the snoring sleepers was unbroken by any horseplay.
I should call them sleepers, Lazy heapers, idle creepers, And their peepers should be weepers!
She was outward bound from Middlesbrough to the River Plate with a cargo of railway iron sleepers.
Easy for sleepers to dawdle with words and say carelessly life is this, life is that.
The sleepers were aroused by the onrush and there was much commotion within.
The sleepers of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railway are nearly all of ebony.
On one particular evening, however, when she made her usual survey of the room, seven of the apparent sleepers were foxing.
The highhole is in evidence, and his rattling call is calculated to awake the sleepers in that pasture at least.
It happened that this train was running light and now the sleepers were practically deserted but for the nodding porters.
The rush was considerable as the Sleepers roused from their hibernation.
No stimuli were allowed to produce in the sleepers any fear reactions.
The sleepers were not ballasted and were anything but level.
The berths are crosswise rather than lengthwise as in our sleepers.
It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle.
Upon hearing the sound of feet approaching, the watch instantly gave the alarm, and the sleepers as suddenly started up and bent their bows.
Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad?
Its breathable percale cover enables heat and air to travel freely, keeping sleepers cool and comfortable.
Grenadier, turn over those sleepers, and take their shawls and linen, to eke out.
Tarzan feared that the anthropoid would awaken the sleepers.
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