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Indian Forest Records 
[Vol. VI 
The treated sleepers were returned to India and handed over to the 
Eastern Bengal State Kail way. They were laid in the open line in June 
1915 under the following conditions :— 
TABLE XXXII. 
Record of experimental sleepers treated under pressure by Messrs. George 
Black & Sons and laid for experimental purposes in the Eastern 
Bengal State Railway. 
Species. 
Dipterocarpus 
turbinatus 
from Anda¬ 
mans. 
No. of 
sleepers 
laid down. 
Locality where 
laid down. 
46 B. G. 
sleepers. 
Between Nai- 
I hati and Kan- 
kinara, Down 
I line mile 22, 
i Telegraph posts! 
| Nos. 22/18 to ! 
22/19. 
Date of I Date of 
laying I last 
down. inspection. 
18th June 
1916. 
23rd June 
1917. 
Inspection 
notes. 
Remarks. 
None removed up 
to date. Their I 
condition is as j 
good as the day 
they were laid 
in the line, 
except that 
slight surface 
cracks have 
developed. On 
the under sur- | 
face they are j 
perfectly sound. 
Inspected by I 
Mr. Taylor, 
Sub-Divisional 
Officer, and 
Forest Econo¬ 
mist. 
D. C. T. cut 
on top of 
each sleeper. 
Ditto 
46 M. G. Between Phul- 
sleepers. bari and 
Bhowani pur, 
mile 101, Tele¬ 
graph posts 
Nos. 101/19 
and 101/21. 
15th August January 
1915. 1917. 
The sleepers Z. X. V. 
are in good stamped 
c o n d i t io n, I on each 
the rail-seats sleeper, 
do not appear 
to have been 
damaged and 
the screw- 
spikes are all 
very firm 
still. 
The sleepers 
in appearance 
are very like 
Sal sleepers \ 
and appear j 
to be as hard. 
Some of them 
have deve¬ 
loped slight 
1 o n g i tudinai 
cracks, but in 
this respect also 
1 do not think 
they are any 
worse than Sal 
| sleepers. 
I It is impossible i 
! to say yet ! 
w’hether they | 
will turn out as 
good as or | 
better than Sal ! 
| in the long run.! 
I Inspected by 
! the Executive 
i Engineer, Said- 
| pur District. 
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