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❓ Question on Notice regarding the use of timber railway sleepers by Brookfield Rail, including sourcing, standards compliance, costs, and quantities. The answer refers to another question, QoN 2162.

AnsweredQoN 2164Legislative Council

Asked

23 October 2014

Member

Hon Lynn MacLaren

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Transport

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Regarding the use of timber railway sleepers for re-sleepering rail lines maintained by Brookfield Rail, I ask: (a) how many timber railway sleepers have been commissioned; (b) how many have been milled in Western Australia, and at what mills; (c) given that railway sleepers are not considered to be value-added products, who authorises the use of native forest timber for railway sleepers; (d) do all sleepers still comply with the relevant Australian Standards, including AS 3818 Part 2; (e) if yes to (d), how does the Minister know that they comply; (f) are timber sleepers required to comply with other standards; (g) if yes to (f), what are those standards, and will the Minister please table a copy; (h) how many timber railway sleepers have been delivered to date; (i) how many timber railway sleepers have been installed already and where; (j) how many timber railway sleepers remain to be delivered; (k) how much has the State Government committed to pay to Brookfield Rail for re-sleepering rail lines; (l) how much has already been paid; and (m) how much of the amount already paid was for timber railway sleepers?