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Twin-block sleepers
Sleepers to which rails are fixed are increasingly made of concrete and no longer of wood, with the majority of them featuring a twin-block design. They comprise two blocks of concrete joined by a metallic corner piece, and the rails are fixed directly to the sleeper.
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