Wooden Railway Sleepers
We have all kinds of different wood types for Railway sleepers options available to make sure you'll be able to find exactly what it is that you're looking for. Nationwide crane vehicle delivery services are available.
Product descriptions from the supplier
Anti-corrosion sleeper treated Treatment Process
Anti-corrosion sleepers are chemically processed, soaked wood grain pillow in coal tar and anthracene oil mixture. After high temperature and high pressure, suck full this wood preservative, become very hard, not only is not easy to corrupt, and waterproof , so embalmed sleepers are not afraid of water.
Anti-corrosion Sleeper Material Quality
Railway now use more strength higher and more durable pine wood and larch wood for manufacturing wood sleepers, wooden pillow full of tough losses, more than any other sleeper trains generated by absorption of the weight.
Specification
Type Railway Sleepers
Type of species European Hardwood and softwood (Pine, Larch, Oak)
Drying: Fresh sawn
Certification: PEFC/FSC
Length: 2.6 metres or 8ft 6" long
Width: 250mm or 10"
I class sleepers: 2500 * 220 * 160mm
II sleepers: 2500 * 200 * 145mm
Turnout sleepers:
common line 150 cut: 220 * 160 * 2600 * 4850mm
Standard line 200 cut: 240 * 160 * 2600 * 4800mm
Characteristics of our sleepers
Our sleepers has good elasticity, light weight, easy fabrication, and other significant characteristics of insulation performance is good. Fasteners with wood blocking connection simple, laying and maintenance, transportation is convenient, wooden sleeper and have bigger friction coefficient between gravel ballast. Wooden sleeper toughening corrosion, can absorb more than other sleeper train weight and less prone to fracture. But its drawback is that use fixed number of year is shorter, consumption of large amount of wood. Wooden sleeper easy to corrupt, the reason from insect pests, the influence of the environment and climate, and the spike on the wood blocking hole by using long relaxation, wooden sleeper most commonly so only decades of life. To effectively extend the service life, sleepers generally must be used after filling the anti-corrosion. The sleepers, now use are embalmed, to prevent pests and to extend the use fixed number of year.
- The initial cost and maintenance cost of railway sleepers should be low.
- Sleepers should have a Moderate weight and they should be easy to handle.
- They should possess a sufficient bearing area.
- These should offer sufficient Track circuiting.
- Sleepers should resist shocks and vibrations.
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