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2 unusual facts about sleepers


Sleepers, Wake!

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford have shaped human experience more broadly and enduringly than Lenin and Hitler.

Barry Jones was Australia's Minister for Science in the Hawke government from 1983 to 1990.


Almond Valley Light Railway

The railway's trackwork consists of flat-bottomed rail mounted using pandrol clips onto Costain concrete sleepers (wooden sleepers are used for pointwork).

Bach Chamber Choir

On January 6, 2008, they performed an Epiphany Concert featuring Bach—Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (Sleepers Awake!), featuring guest talent and other pieces of the same theme.

Eugene Byrd

He has been in movies including Dead Man, Demon Island, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and has the leading role in Confess, for which he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the 2006 Method Fest Independent Film Festival.

Gare de Chambly

Since the railway had significant needs for treated wood, notably for making sleepers, a sawmill, a joinery and a carpentry shop were set up at Moulin Neuf, as well as facilities for impregnating and creosoting wood and chairing sleepers.

Henry Pollock

Lady Oakley was a long-time resident in Hong Kong and was noted for her active participation in local public services, especially in the Street Sleepers' Society, St John's Cathedral Women's Guild and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Larry Hryb

In 1996 Larry had a non-speaking role of a scorekeeper in the guards vs students football scene in the movie Sleepers starring Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro and more.

Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway

During the period required for its repair, a steam-hauled freight train of the Hanau railway museum (Museumseisenbahn Hanau) railway ran over the Taunus to Steinefrenz station to supply the concrete sleepers.

Martini-Enfield

The Khyber Pass region between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long had a reputation for producing unlicensed, home-made copies of firearms using whatever materials are available- more often than not, railway sleepers, junked motor vehicles, and scrap metal.

Pasquale Cajano

After Casino, Cajano went on with small roles in certain films, like Big Night, Sleepers, and The Impostors (another uncredited role).

Rail transport in the Netherlands

Because the distance between the stations is relatively short, the trains are not sleepers.

Rough Sleepers Initiative

In the early 1980s it existed close to the River Thames at the London Embankment tube station and was closed as a rough sleepers site by Westminster City Council working with the voluntary sector so that the space used by rough sleepers could be upgraded into a retail shopping area.

Schofields railway station

The former station was originally opened as a siding stop with a platform made from railway sleepers in the early 1870s on the western side of the track, which was later rebuilt in brick in 1888 along with a goods loop after the Richmond line was upgraded by John Whitton the then Engineer-in-Chief.

Sean Linkenback

Before that he was an adviser to Warren's Movie Poster Price Guide, the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, as well as being an adviser on the first Sotheby's comic book auction, and a frequent writer about comics including the feature "CBM Presents Sleepers" in Comic Book Marketplace.

Wandong railway station

Wandong station was damaged in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires with two bridges, 1200 railway sleepers and part of platform requiring repairs.


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