Sleepers were planks that held railway tracks together.
A
iron
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B
wooden
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C
aluminium
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D
copper
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Solution
The correct option is B wooden Sleepers were wooden planks that held railway tracks together, and were made out of timber during the British period. Since it required a large amount of timber, it led to massive deforestation during the 1850s.