Images from article "Sleeper factory a hungry giant" 8 November 2002
by Paul Milton Butler

The massive saw used to cut the individual sleepers

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Sleepers make their way along the conveyor belt to the cutting saw

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A worker operates the saw

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Sleeper beds used as moulds

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The sleeper beds are 180 metres long

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Completed sleepers ready to be laid on the track

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