Railroad Sleeper

Wooden sleeper

Wooden sleeper is the only type of railroad sleeper in the early of railway track system. In general, the wooden sleeper has decade’s service life because of material, to prolong its use life, the wooden sleeper should be oiled or treated by other corrosion-preservation. According to the wood types, there is hardwood sleeper and softwood sleeper. Wooden sleeper produced by AGICO Rail has advantages as follows:

• Good elasticity; 
• Light weight; 
• Good insulation properties;
• Various types of wooden sleeper include treated wooden sleeper for normal track, treated wooden sleeper for turnout, treated wooden sleeper for bridge. 

Concrete sleeper

Concrete sleeper is the concrete product used as railroad sleeper, and it is made from reinforced concrete. The concrete sleeper has advantages in high-speed railway, heavy-load railway, and seamless rail compared with wooden sleepers. 

• Good stability and uniform elasticity; 
• Long use life and less maintenance cost;
• Easy to maintain rail gauge;
• Same size and hardness because of steam demoulding
• No effect by environment. 

Steel sleeper

Steel sleeper is generally applied to railway track of German and Switzerland, and some railway line in the tropical zone. 

• No afraid of fire, worms;
• Easy to process and maintain;
• Lighter weight than that of concrete sleeper, easy to transport;
• Ability to work under pressure;
• Large supporting capacity;
• Hard to damage, high recovery rate, reach to about 70%.

Composite sleeper

Composite sleeper is similar in appearance, easy to install, also have good insulation and stability, even in the adverse weather condition. it is water resistant, fire resistant, corrosion resistant and environment-friendly.