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   Railway Plantations and Railway Sleepers in South Africa, 1910–1937

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: G.H. Pirie --- Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,

   Plantations owned by the South African Railways in the period 1910–1937 were not an important source of timber for railway sleepers. The plantations yielded wood for other railway uses as well as for use in the mines and in box...

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   CCA—treated Laminated Railway Sleepers and Telephone Cross-arms

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: W.E. Conradie --- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research,

   A non-conventional process for the manufacturing of laminated pine railway sleepers and telephone cross-arms, involving the treatment of laminations with copper-chrome-arsenic (CCA) preservatives before gluing and assembly, was investigated.

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