{"id":111745,"date":"2024-08-21T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=111745"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:51:26","slug":"why-is-v-line-installing-used-concrete-sleepers-on-the-regional-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=111745","title":{"rendered":"Why is V\/Line installing used concrete sleepers on the regional network?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting to see V\/line is installing concrete sleepers on the country network that have already been used elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not opposed to this as reuse of concrete sleepers and wooden if appropriate is a good use of the concept of recycling resources but let&#8217;s hope they have been checked and tested.  Let&#8217;s hope it is due to a conscious decision to recycle sleepers that have a longer term useful life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When are V\/Line going to start fixing the network they have left in a dilapidated state where freight trains are unable to use these lines for customers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not opposed to this as reuse of concrete sleepers and wooden if appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":111746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6070,186],"tags":[9,993,8],"class_list":["post-111745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-railway-track-structures","category-v-line","tag-freight","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111747,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111745\/revisions\/111747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}