Re: [melb] burning sleepers at North Melbourne

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

I've seen them before at Richmond, and other places. I think it's just the
hot weather that causes it. At Richmond years ago I saw a station assistant
pour water from a bucket over one. But they rarely venture up to the
platforms these days.


Daniel
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<pshute@melbpc.org.au> wrote in message
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> I regularly see smouldering sleepers while I wait for my train at
> North Melbourne.  I can see that many sleepers have old burn marks,
> and that some are burnt very deeply.
>
> What causes these fires? Cigarettes or something hot dropping off a
> train?  It seems to happen regularly, and I expect that sleepers are
> not cheap to replace, so why doesn't anyone seem to care if there is
> smoke billowing up from the tracks?
>
> Peter Shute