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communicate the following particulars and to say that if further details 
are required, it will be necessary to refer to the Railway Administration 
concerned.” 
2. I.—Experiments carried out with impregnated sleepers. 
“ Omitting the Powellizing process which is now being tried for 
Railway sleepers, under the direction of the Imperial Forest Economist, 
experiments on Indian Railways have been practically limited to two 
processes (A) Creosoting, and ( B ) the HasJcin process. 
3. (A) Creosoting. 
In the infancy of Indian Railways, practice was modelled very 
largely on that existing in England, creosoted pine sleepers were imported 
to a considerable extent and were found fairly successful. In 1866 the 
East Indian Railway with a view to making use of certain species 
of soft pines and firs available in Northern India, imported a creosoting 
plant for the purpose of treating these sleepers. The cost of these 
sleepers was, however, found to be prohibitive and the plant was 
abandoned and sold as scrap iron many years ago. 
“ Creosoted pine, imported from England, continued to be used for 
some years by Railways having access to the western ports of India. 
Thus, on the North-Western Railway, some creosote pine sleepers were 
laid on the Kotri-Rohri section in 1897. These sjeepers were Baltic red 
pine imported under I. 0. Contracts No. 40-240—242, dated 23rd Novem¬ 
ber 1894, and No. 48-151, dated 10th September 1895. It is believed 
that all these sleepers have, since 1897, been replaced by sleepers of 
other varieties. 
‘ f A large number of creopine sleepers were also laid on the Southern 
Punjab Railway previous to the year 1904 and were estimated to last 
from 7 to 12 years. 
“ The use of these imported creosoted pine sleepers has been dis¬ 
couraged by the Consulting Engineers to the India Office, and no sleepers 
of this kind have been used of recent years on State Railways. Informa¬ 
tion regarding other Railways is very scanty, but it is known that in 
former years the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway imported 
considerable numbers of creosoted pine sleepers ; such sleepers were also 
used by the Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway and, to a 
very limited extent, by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. 
4. (B) The Haskin process. 
“ I n November 1899, at the suggestion of the Consulting Engineer 
for Railways, the Government of India (Public Works Department) 
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