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New No-bolt Concrete Sleeper for Points Introduced in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- The railway transport sector of the DPRK has pushed ahead with the work to replace sleepers for points with new no-bolt concrete sleepers.

The new sleepers were laid at the yards of Pyongyang Railway Station and Sokthangonchon Railway Station in the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort.

The sleeper, designed by the Pyongyang Railway Technology Institute, helps ensure the safety of train service, raise the traffic capacity of railways three times than before and reduce labor for maintenance of rail tracks to one tenth.

And its serviceable life is more than 50 years.

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